Angelo quotes Flashcards
The Duke about Angelo
‘lent him our terror, dressed him with…
our love And given his deputation all the organs of our own power.’
antithesis, love and terror needed to rule
Escalus about Angelo at beginning
‘If any in Vienna be of worth to…
undergo such ample grace and honour It is Lord Angelo.’
Angelo has a good reputation
Angelo
‘Let there be some more test…
made of my mettle.’
What does Claudio call Angelo?
‘the demi-god, authority.’
unhuman, unfeeling, uses power too quickly. It is a sin to act as a God
What does the Duke say about Angelo when wanting to see if the power he has received will change his puritanical ways?
‘scarce confesses that his blood flows, or that his appetite is more to bread than stone. Hence shall we see if power changes purpose.’
Angelo lacks sexual appetite, shown by lack of blood and the bread and stone, looks to see if Angelo’s behaviours will change.
What does Lucio say about Angelo’s sexual desires and his ‘blood’?
‘Lord Angelo, a man whose blood is very snow broth.’
blood means sexual desire due to the belief in the four humours. snow is cold and thus his blood and sexual desire is non existant
What does Angelo say about scarecrows?
‘we must not make a scarecrow of the law.’
this metaphor is expressed by the way scarecrows do not actually enforce their fear and therefore after a while can be ineffective
What does Angelo say about being tempted to Escalus?
'’tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall.’
When Angelo and Escalus are hearing about Elbow and Pompey what does Angelo say when he gets bored and leaves to Escalus?
‘Hoping you’ll find good cause to whip them all.’
dark desire to punish
How does Angelo describe Claudio to Isabella?
‘Your brother is a forfeit of the law.’
How does Angelo personify the law?
‘The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.’
What is Isabella’s speech about Angelo in Act 2 scene 2 ? (little brief authority)
‘But man, proud man, Dressed in little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as would make angels weep, who with our spleens would all themselves laugh mortal.’
apes, mimic human behaviour and look ridiculous, similarly man becomes ridiculous when he tries to mimic God, Ape also implies bad tempered and petulant
assured, the passage is an attack on human arrogance
glassy essence- glass is brittle and mirror, perhaps suggesting we can’t see his inner evil essence
the angels would laugh until they become mortal
What does Angelo say when he realises Isabella has a point?
‘she speaks , and ‘tis such sense that my sense breeds with it.’
ambiguous, talking about sexuality or saying her argument is good. Breeds is a role reversal, meaning Isabella impregnates him with her ideas but also has sexual connotations.
In Angelo’s soliloquay what rhetorical questions does he ask?
‘What’s this, what’s this? The tempter of the tempted who sins most, ha?’
is it her fault for tempting him or his fault for feeling tempted? Tempter is also a reference to the devil
rhetorical questions and repetition shows his confusion at these sexual feelings
What metaphor did Angelo use about carrions and violets?
‘it is I That lying by the violet in the sun Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, corrupt with virtuous season.’
Violet is a flower associated wit modesty chastity and fragrance
carrion is the decaying flesh of dead animals, also flesh of man, the evil within
the sun and violet symbolise Isabella, oxymoronic as she is both chaste but exciting and sexually stimulating
the heat of the sun corrupts the meat but makes the flower grow and blossom
How does Angelo suggest that he desires Isabella for her purity?
‘Dost thou desire her foully for those things that make her good?’
desires her for her saintliness, her purity makes her attractive
How does Angelo question if he loves Isabella?
‘What, do I love her? That I desire to hear her speak again, And feast upon her eyes?’
feast, gluttony sinful, sexuality
How does Angelo describe the effect Isabella has on him?
‘this virtuous maid subdues me quite. Ever till now when men were fond, I smiled and wondered how.
she has awakened the sexual feelings he sees in other men
How does Angelo express his desire to talk of Isabel?
‘hearing not my tongue, anchors on Isabel’
subconsciously he wants to talk of her
What quote shows Angelo’s duality?
‘let’s write good angel on the devil’s horn.’
horn is a sexual phallic symbol, it has images of cuckoldry and sexual devilishness. He wants to disguise this inner aspect of himself by writing ‘good angel’ and thus hides himself in a pure exterior.
When Angelo meets Isabella again how is his sexual feeling shown?
‘Why does my blood muster to my heart.’
How does Angelo initially proposition Isabella?
Angelo: ‘to redeem him, give up your body to such sweet uncleanness as she that he hath stained?’
Isabella: ‘Sir, believe this, I had rather give my body than my soul.’
oxymoronic sweet uncleanness. She would rather die that have sex
How does Angelo try to convince Isabella that sleeping with him is the nobel and good thing?
‘might there not be a charity in sin To save this brother’s life?’
What does Angelo want Isabella to lay down?
‘you must lay down the treasures of your body To this supposed or else let him suffer.’
treasure, virginity= a kind of wealth
this imagery also invokes discovery
How does Angelo express that he thinks Isabella is hypocritical in valuing her own chastity over the chastity of Julietta and her brother?
‘You seemed of late to make the law a tyrant, And rather proved the sliding of your brother A merriment than a vice.’
merriment is a joke, sliding is a moral lapse
How does Angelo say his word will overrule Isabella’s when she threatens to expose his evil nature?
Isabella: ‘sign me a present pardon for my brother, Or with an outstretched throat I’ll tell the world aloud What man thou art.’
Angelo: ‘Who will believe thee Isabel? My unsoiled name, the austereness of my life, My vouch against you, and my place i’the state, will so your accusation overweigh.’
What does Angelo’s false o’erweigh?
Isabella’s ‘true’
‘my false o’erweighs your true.’
This is a massive abuse of power
how does Isabella express that Angelo is not someone who is likely to change his mind and well as his duality?
‘this outward sainted deputy whose settled visage.’
settled visage- fixed expression, won’t change mind
he is only saintly from the outlook
What does Angelo’s name mean?
‘Angel’
but is he??
How does Isabella describe the extent of Angelo’s evil?
‘His flith within being cast, he would appear A pond as deep as hell.’
if they cleaned out the evil of his soul they would reach hell it would be so deep
What does Lucio say about Angelo’s birth?
‘some report a sea maid spawned him. Some, that he was begot between two stockfishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.’
suggests Angelo is not human
stockfishes are a name for cod, this is used to suggest Angelo is something cold and sexless
How does the Duke talk of Angelo’s duality?
‘O what man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!’
this is a play on Angelo’s name
what the Duke objects to in Angelo is not his severity but his hypocrisy
How is Angelo worried when he hears the Duke wants to come back and hear from the people any injustices they may have suffered? (a soliloquy)
‘This deed unshaped me quite, makes me unpregnant. And dull to all proceedings. A deflowered maid, And by an eminent body that enforced The law against it! But that her tender shame Will not proclaim against her maiden loss, How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no.’
unshapes me quite- makes me lose my self possession (calmness)
unpregnant- slow witted
eminent body- important public official
tongue - reproach
How does Isabella describe Angelo as a caitiff?
‘pernicious caitiff deputy.’
How does the Duke, dressed as a friar again, articulate in Act 5 that Angelo must be respected only for his high position, not his personal character?
‘let the devil be sometime honoured for his burning throne.’
you should respect the devil for his high place in hell but nothing else
How does the Duke describe Angelo’s crime in Act 5?
‘in double violation of scared chastity and of promise-breech.’
doesn’t see it as the political crime it perhaps is, he had abused him power that is the crime
How does Angelo beg for death in Act 5?
‘I crave death more willingly than mercy.’
crave- he is desperate, puritanical desires punishment for sin
What does the Duke say to Angelo is Act 5 about his marriage to Mariana?
‘Angelo, your evil quits you well. Look that you love your wife, her worth worth yours.’
Your evil has been well repaid by marriage to Mariana, you’ve no reason to feel superior to her. In a patriarchal society this is a big deal.
