Act 5, Scene 1 Flashcards
“we hear such goodness of your justice”
Irony - the duke is in no way just
Duke –> Angelo
Takes over line share, loss of power - rope to hang himself
“Justice. O royal duke!”
Flattering Duke - power
Begin with justice, end with Justice
repitition - anger?? Passion
Isabella’s anger?
“justice, justice, justice, justice!”
Repitition = pleading
Isabella has been played by the Duke
“Here is Lord Angelo shall give you justice: reveal yourself to him”
Irony - she is supposed to have revealed herself to him
Duke is meddling
“You bid me seek redemption of the devil: Hear me yourself”
Imperative - desperate
Justice from the devil - impossible
Starts public reveal of Angelo’s character
“My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm”
Angelo responds to her calling him a devil by saying she’s crazy
“Angelo’s a murderer; is’t not strange”
“Angelo’s an adulterous thief, An hypocrite, a virgin-violator”
“is it not strange and strange?”
Questioning and exposing him
Anathora
Duplicity– she’s part of bedswap
Isabella’s revenge against Angelo
“In all his dressing, characts, titles, forms, Be an arch-villain”
Two-faced deceit
His awful is hidden behind his dressings
Isabella about Angelo
“Had i more name for badness”
He’s the epitome of badness
nothing more to say of his evil
Isabella about Angelo
“her maddness hath the oddest frame of sense
Duke suggests she perhaps speaks sense
“but by gift of my chaste body to his concupiscible imtemperate lust, release my brother”
Idea that her virginity has been stolen
Lie - she didn’t sleep with him
Isabella about Angelo
“Fond wretch” and “he would have weigh’d thy brother by himself and not have cut him off”
Duke defends Angelo
‘weigh’d’ - weighing – MFM
Suggests that if true, he wouldv’e done the the same to himself - weighed justice
Act 2, S4 - Isabella’s biggest fear - women are not believed
“I have known my husband; yet my husband knows not that ever he knew me”
Duke allows Marina to speak
Grand reveal
she confesses
biblical knowing - sex
“Why, just, my lord, and that is Angelo, Who thinks he knows that he ne’er knew my body. But knows he thinks that he know’s Isabel’s”
Grand reveal of bedswap
Duke allows Marina to speak
presents dichotomy, he was raped whilst raping someone
“five years since”
“some speech of marriage”
“i never spake with her”
Angelo trying to diffuse the situation
Passive voice - never admits to behaviour, removes responsibility
downplaying situation
