Isabella Flashcards
1
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Tragic hero
A
- ‘from beauty fell’
- hamartia = naivety
- ‘fed it with thin tears, thick and green it grew’
2
Q
Fate
A
- repetition of ‘they could not’
- ‘he might not in house, field or garden stir’
3
Q
Anagnorisis
A
4
Q
Isolation
A
- ‘he might not in house, field or garden stir’
5
Q
Changes of fortune
A
- No change of fortune as love is doomed from the beginning
- ‘from beauty fell’
6
Q
Tragic victims
A
- ‘sweet Isabella’s untouched cheek’
- ‘there was Lorenzo slain and buried in’
- ‘its eyes’
7
Q
Settings
A
- the fields which separated the lovers
- ‘a forest quiet for the slaughter’ , ‘dismal forest hearse’
8
Q
Suffering
A
- ‘long month of May in this sad plight’ (even when it is meant to be good)
9
Q
Blindness
A
- ‘they seemed to tread upon the air’
10
Q
Positives emerging
A
- ‘away they went to banishment’ (got away with it)
- ‘O cruelty to steal my basil-pot away from me’
11
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Emptiness
A
- ‘snowy shroud’
12
Q
Loss/ death
A
The death of Lorenzo causes obsession of Isabella
13
Q
Tragic fall
A
- ‘from beauty fell’
- ‘dismal labouring’ (subverts expectations)
- ‘she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun… she forgot’
14
Q
Villains
A
- ‘enriched with ancestral merchandise’
- ‘why in the name of glory were they proud’ (intrusive narration)
- ‘red lined accounts’
- ‘dipped their swords in the water’
15
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Flaws
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- ‘poor simple isobel’ (naivety)
- ‘as he went she chanted merrilly’
- ‘I thought the worst was simple misery’
