Act Five Flashcards
Act 5 Scene 1: the Duke greeting both Angelo and Escalus upon his ‘return’ to Vienna
“My very worthy cousin, fairly met. Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you.”
Act 5 Scene 1: the Duke ironically revealing that he has been keeping informed into the affairs in Vienna
“We have made enquiry of you, and we hear / Such goodness of your justice”
Act 5 Scene 1: Isabella imploring with the Duke to see through Angelo’s facade and realise his true nature
“let your reason serve / To make the truth appear where it seems hid, / And hide the false seems true.”
Act 5 Scene 1: The Duke joking with Angelo, creating the illusion that he doesn’t believe Isabella and that he sees this accusation as mere lies
“Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo?”
Act 5 Scene 1: Mariana agreeing to reveal her identity once she has been permitted to by her husband
“My husband bids me, now I will unmask.”
Act 5 Scene 1: Angelo dismissing the words of Isabella and Mariana and claiming that they are acting on another more powerful individual’s behalf
“These poor informal women are no more / But instruments of some more mightier member / That sets them on.”
Act 5 Scene 1: Lucio stating in Latin that ‘Friar Lodowick’ was merely disguised as a religious man
“Cucullus non facit monachum”
[a hood does not make a friar]
Act 5 Scene 1: Lucio objectifying women by claiming they are incapable of resisting and suppressing their sexual desires
“for women are light at midnight.”
Act 5 Scene 1: The Duke, in his friar disguise, alluding to the fact that he and The Duke are the same person
“the duke / Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he / Dare rack his own.”
Act 5 Scene 1: The Duke, disguised as ‘Friar Lodowick’ claiming that he has as much respect for The Duke as he has for himself
“I protest I love the duke as I love myself.”
Act 5 Scene 1: Angelo finally revealing his crimes and sinful behaviour and begging to be punished accordingly
“But let my trial be mine own confession: / Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, / Is all grace I beg.”
Act 5 Scene 1: The Duke announcing to Isabella that he was ‘Friar Lodowick’, and Isabella’s reaction
“Your friar is now your prince”
“Oh, give me pardon / That I, your vassal, have employ’d and pain’d / Your unknown sovereignty.”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“I hope you will not mock me with a husband?”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“If he be like your brother, for his sake / Is he pardon’d, and for your lovely sake / Give me your hand, and say you will be mine, / He is my brother too.”
Act 5 Scene 1:
“Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well. / Look that you love your wife: he worth, worth yours.”
