Friar/Duke quotes Flashcards
‘Mortality and mercy in Vienna live in thy tongue and heart’.
- Alludes to the enormous responsibility of being a ruler.
- Juxtaposition and alliteration emphasises how the Duke wants Angelo to be fair and just.
- Shakespeare poses questions about to what degree a ruler should be fair and just.
‘Like an overgrown lion in a cave that goes not out to prey’
- Simile compares Duke to a lion.
- Lion symbolises strength and power, however ‘goes not out to prey’ demonstrates a lack of enforcement of power and authority.
‘The rod becomes more mocked than feared’
- Metaphor of ‘rod’ symbolises authority and power.
- Implies that rules and laws must be enforced to maintain the moral health of Vienna.
‘Haste still pays haste and leisure answers leisure; like doth quit like, and measure still for measure’
- Duke condemns Angelo to death.
- Biblical reference to old testament ‘an eye for an eye’.
- Angelo must die in the same way he condemned Claudio.
‘We do instate and widow you with all, to buy you a better husband’
- A03: When a man is executed, his possessions go to the state, however the Duke promises Mariana Angelo’s possessions.
-Sees marriage as a finacial transaction - not preoccupied with love.
‘Give me your hand and say you will be mine’
- Synecdoche of ‘hand’ to allude to marriage.
- Imperative, very commanding.
-Possessive pronoun.
‘What’s mine is yours and what’s yours is mine’
-Ideas of equality and balance within marriage.
‘If power changes purpose what our seemers seem to be’
-Trying to expose Angelo and his hypocrisy and corruption.
- Questions the Duke’s morality as he puts the people of Vienna in harms way to expose Angelo’s character.
‘He is your husband on a precontract; to bring you thus together tis no sin’
-Highlights ambiguity surrounding the legitimacy of marriage during the Early Modern Period.
-Duke believes Mariana and Angelo are married ‘per verbia de futuro’.
-Highlights Duke’s morally dubious actions; he’s in the costume of a friar, thus exploiting the religious authority.
-Dramatic irony.
‘This is his pardon, purchased by such sin for which the pardoner himself is in’
- Angelo has committed the same sin that he’s killing Claudio for.
-Highlights Angelo’s hypocrisy and corruption.
‘Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting to yonder generation, you shall find your safety manifested’
-Duke will come back and restore Vienna.
-Highlighting his arrogance .
-Dramatic irony.
-Highlights his morally dubious nature as he’s had the power to prevent all situations from occurring since the beginning.
‘But I will make her ignorant of her good to make her heavenly comforts of despair when it is least expected’
- Won’t tell Isabella that Claudio is alive - wants to control her emotions.
-Very manipulative and Shakespeare questions his morality.
‘Command these fretting waters from your eyes with a light heart; trust not my holy order if I pervert your course’
- Isabella is crying as she believes her brother has been executed.
-Dramatic Irony as Duke is in the costume of a friar.
-Use of imperatives - Shakespeare questions his morality and portrays the Duke as a flawed character as he manipulates Isabella.
‘Why you are nothing, neither maid, widow nor wife’
- A03: Attitudes towards women, no value [Mariana] as she’s unchaste. Extremely belittling and degrading.
- Portrays women as insignificant and highlights the marginalisation of women within a patriarchal society.
‘Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble till it overrun the stew’
- Metaphor to highlight the decline of Vienna’s moral health and exposes Angelo’s hypocrisy.
