Isabella or the pot of basil Flashcards
The brothers as tragic villains
‘why were
they proud?’
The brothers as tragic villains
‘hungry pride
and gainful cowardice’
The brothers as tragic villains
‘to make the youngster
for his crime atone’
The brothers as tragic villains
‘cut mercy with
a sharp knife to the bone’
The brothers as tragic villains
‘each richer
by his being a muderer’
Fate/ inevitable downfall
‘i must taste the
lorenzo
blossoms that unfold’
Fate/ inevitable downfall
‘unknown of any,
free from whispering tale’
Fate/ inevitable downfall
‘too many tears
for lovers have been shed’
Fate/ inevitable downfall
‘richest juice
in poison flowers’
Motif of love
‘with every morn
their love grew tenderer’
Motif of love
‘passion is both
meek and mild’
Motif of love
‘a dreary
night of love and misery’
Motif of love
‘twin roses
by the zephr blown apart’
Motif of love
‘lorenzo’s flush
with love’
how he looked before he was murdered
Suffering
‘sick longing
all the night’
Suffering
‘thy paleness
lorenzo is happy that isabella is upset by his death
makes me glad’
Suffering
‘sweet basil which
her tears kept ever wet’
basil plant is a offspring of her suffering
Lorenzo as a tragic victim
‘my soul
is to it’s doom’
Lorenzo as a tragic victim
‘went all naked
to the hungry shark’
his flaw was his openess in his love for isabella
Lorenzo as a tragic victim
‘the hunted
hare’
Lorenzo as a tragic victim
‘forest
tomb’
Isabella as a tragic protagonist
‘she
weeps alone’
Isabella as a tragic protagonist
‘by gradual
decay her beauty fell’
Isabella as a tragic protagonist
‘her heart felt
pity to the core’
Isabella as a tragic protagonist
‘will die a death
too lone and incomplete’
Isabella as a tragic protagonist
‘she
withers’
Setting
‘long month
of may in this sad plight’
Setting
‘grew like
a lusty flower, in June’s caress’
Setting
‘for they resolved in
some forest dim’
darkness shows evil murder
Setting
‘the breath
of winter comes from far away’
