Measure for Measure Flashcards
Act 1 Scene 4: Lucio: ‘Hail virgin if you be’
Lucio opinion of women sex the basis of this, mockery and condescending
Key characters
Vincentio- The Duke Angelo- The Dukes deputy Escalus- An ancient lord Claudio- Prisoner-Isabellas brother Lucio- Claudio's friend Provost- In charge of prison Elbow- Police constable (simple minded) Abhorson- Executor Froth- Foolish gentlemen Pompey- Pimp and tapster Barnandine- Prisoner-murderer Friar Thomas/Peter- Friars Isabella- Nun-Claudio's sister Juliet- Sweetheart of Claudio Mariana- Formerly betrothed to Angelo Mistress Overdone- A Bawd
All power to Angelo,power within physical body, punishment and love lent over
Act 1 Scene 1: The Duke: ‘Lent him our terror, drest him with our love/And give his deputation all the organs/Of our own power’
Act 1 Scene 1: Reference to body, value human life, remember everyone makes mistakes, Mortality and …
The Duke: ‘Mortality and mercy in Vienna/live in thy tounge and heart’
Act 1 Scene 1: Angelo: ‘Let there be some more test made of my metal/Before so noble and great a figure/Be stamp’d upon it’
Metaphor-Doesn’t know his metal strong enough and maybe not up for it
Act 1 Scene 2: 1st Gentleman: ‘thou’rt a three-piled piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief be a list of an English kersey, as be piled, as thou art pilled, for a French velvet
Meaning bald-link to syphilis, bald-suffering from piles, both associated with syphilis a sexually transmitted condition known as the French disease
The lady of sexual satisfaction comes
Act 1 Scene 2: Lucio: ‘Behold,behold where Madame Mitigation comes!’
Act 1 Scene 2: Mistress Overdone : ‘Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what with
the gallows, and what with poverty, I am custom-shrunk’
Soliloquy-Reveals what speaker is thinking- affects her customers
Act 1 Scene 2: Pompey: ‘Growing for trouts in a peculiar river’
Misogynistic, Sex getting girlfriend pregnant, gone for he shouldn’t have gone for
Act 1 Scene 2: Too much freedom and one thing will lead to something worse, Consequence of freedom fast
Act 1 Scene 2: Claudio: “Liberty, / As surfeit, is the father of much fast; / So every scope by the immoderate use / Turns to restraint’
Act 1 Scene 2: Claudio: ‘All the enrolled penalties / Which have, like unscoured armour, hung by th’wall / So long, that nineteen zodiacs have gone round, / And none of them been worn’
Angelo not brought in new law he just enforces the law differently and fell on Claudio, reputation of Angelo taking over from the Duke.
Act 1 Scene 3: Duke: ‘A man of strictures and firm abstinence’
Self discipline, strong
Act 1 Scene 3: Duke: ‘We have strict statutes and most biting laws, / The
needful bits and curbs to headstrong jades, / Which for this fourteen years we have let slip’
Not much freedom, Duke been too nice, simile strict yet not applied, laws forgotten
Metaphor people above people in power- the people had the Duke in control. Liberty plucks justice
Act 1 Scene 3: Duke: ‘Liberty plucks Justice by the nose, / The Baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart / Goes all decorum’
Ruling through cruelty and power would be wrong, he had been too lax for too long would not work so Angelo used as a substitution for Duke
Act 1 Scene 3: Duke:‘Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them / For what I bid them do”
