Measure for Measure

Question 1

What shows Angelo is given absolute power

Answer 1

‘Morality and mercy in Vienna live in thy tongue and heart’

Question 2

How does Angelo try to appear more measured and judicious

Answer 2

Let there be some more test made of my metal before so noble and so great a figure be stamp’d upon it

Question 3

How does claudio vent his frustration that justice is ambiguous and subjective

Answer 3

Thus can the demigod authority make us pay for our offence by weight, the words of heaven, on whim it will it will on whom it will not, so. Yet still ‘tis just.

Question 4

Claudio says that Angelo’s command emanates from a desire to assert his authority or to bolster his own reputation

Answer 4

The body public be a horse whereon the governor doth ride, who, newly in the seat, that it may know he can command, lets it straight feel the spur.

Question 5

Duke is conducting a study on human nature

Answer 5

Hence we shall see if power changes purpose what our seemers be

Question 6

Duke says we have a responsibility to share our virtues

Answer 6

For if our virtues did not go forth of us, twere alike as if we had them not

Question 7

How does the duke abdicate responsibility

Answer 7

Sith twas my fault to give the people scope, it would be my tyranny to strike and gall them

Question 8

Who is responsible for sinning, according to Angelo

Answer 8

is this her fault or mine? The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? still doesn’t accept responsibility for his corruption

Question 9

Angelo’s guilty anxiety

Answer 9

This deed unshaped me quite, makes me unpregnant and dull to all proceedings

Question 10

How is angelo self reflective and acknowledges he has strayed on the wrong path

Answer 10

When once our grace we have forgot, nothing goes right, we would and we would not (lawful evil)

Question 11

How does angelo use evasive and circumlocutory language to avoid taking responsibility

Answer 11

A deflowred maid and by an eminent body that enforced the law against it

Question 12

How does the duke encourage self reflection from angelo

Answer 12

In this ill be impartial: be you judge of your own cause

Question 13

Angelo’s pardon is problematic/cowardly as he appears to lament being caught than committing the crime

Answer 13

I crave death more willingly than mercy

Question 14

Lucio insults the duke. Suggests he wasn’t recognising the need for balance

Answer 14

A very superficial, ignorant, unweighihg fellow

Question 15

What shows it is acceptable to distort morals in favour of self preservation

Answer 15

twas a commandment to command the captain and all the rest from their function: they put forth to steal

Question 16

Duke’s opinion of Angelo:

Answer 16

A man of stricture and firm abstinence

Question 17

Angelo is so moral and strict to the point where he is inhuman

Answer 17

A man whose blood is very snow broth, one who never feels the wanton stings and motions of the sense but doth rebate and blunt his natural edge

Question 18

Angelo desires Isabella for her goodness, wants to corrupt her

Answer 18

Dost thou desire her foully for those things that make her good

Question 19

A child born out of wedlock is sinful in the context of a conservative catholic world

Answer 19

the sin you carry is ‘of a heavier kind than his’

Question 20

Angelo encourages isabella to reconsider her sense of morals. Claudio also says

Answer 20

• might not there be a charity in sin to save this brothers life
• what sin you do to save a brother’s life nature dispenses with the deed so far this it becomes a virtue

Question 21

If she gives in to angelo what will happen to her sould

Answer 21

a sister by redeeming him should die forever. More than our brother is our chastity

Question 22

Isabella favours the sanctity of her soul over bodily punishments

Answer 22

o were it but my life id throw it down for your deliverance as frankly as a pin

Question 23

Taking away life, crime otherwise, is excused when its under the name of justice

Answer 23

Pompey would rather be a lawful bawd than an ‘unlawful hangman

Question 24

Laws will not impede pompey

Answer 24

Though you change your place you need to change your trade

Question 25

Lucio’s priorities centre around pleasure than morals, representing the state of vienna

Answer 25

I has as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment

Question 26

Law in vienna have been dormant

Answer 26

• Nineteen zodiacs have gone round and none of them have been worn
• We have strict statutes and most biting laws, the needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds, which for fourteen years we have let slip

Question 27

When people are free they disregard authority and results in social decay

Answer 27

Liberty plucks justice by the nose, the baby beats the nurse

Question 28

Pompey’s defiance

Answer 28

The valiant heart’s not whipped out of his trade

Question 29

Angelo on how the law is being mocked

Answer 29

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey till custom make it their perch and not their terror

Question 30

Escalus supports a more measured approach

Answer 30

Let us be keen and rather cut a little than fall and bruise to death

Question 31

Angelo says justice seizes whatever opportunity it can

Answer 31

Whats open made to justice, that justice seizes

Question 32

Escapes says that justice is uncertain and relative

Answer 32

‘Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. Some run from breaks of ice and answer none, and some condemned for a fault alone

Question 33

Escapes says that being merciful may in face encourage further wrongdoing

Answer 33

pardon is still the nurse of second woe

Question 34

Duke bring mariana and isabella together

Answer 34

to bring you together thus tis no sin, sth that the justice of your title to him doth flourish the deceit
-he is your husband on a pre contact

Question 35

Every action has a consequence

Answer 35

Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure, doth quit like and measure still for measure

Question 36

Angelo uses confrontational aggressive language to describe juliet

Answer 36

See you the fornicatress be removed, let her have needful but not lavish means.

Question 37

Isabella and the patriarchy

Answer 37

• ‘men their creation mar in profiting by them’

- ‘destined livery’

Question 38

Dowry values more than women

Answer 38

she lost the portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry

Question 39

The duke is in charge and the women are not

Answer 39

‘be ruled by him’ and ‘i am advised to do it’

Question 40

Limited roles available for women

Answer 40

wife nor maid nor widow ‘why you ar nothing then’

Question 41

Duke is certain he wont get distracted by love

Answer 41

believe not that dribbling dart of love can pierce a complete busom

Question 42

Isabella thinks mercy is the most valuable trait of a leader

Answer 42

the kings crown nor the deputed sword becomes them with one half so good a grace as mercy does

Question 43

Angelo view on mercy is not individualistic and favours the greater good

Answer 43

‘i show [pity] most of all when i show justice, for then i pity those i do not know. PUNITIVE JUSTICE

Question 44

TO isabella angelo’s proposition is paradoxical

Answer 44

‘Theres a devilish mercy in the judge that will free your will but fetter you until death

Question 45

Moral blackmail in order to educate isabella and teacher her mercy and forgiveness

Answer 45

tis a physic thats bitter to a sweet end

Question 46

Claudio suggests that humanity has an intrinsic morbid desire for harmful things

Answer 46

our natures do pursue like rats that ravine down their proper bane, a thirsty evil and when we drink we die

Question 47

Humans can never be satisfied

Answer 47

happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv’st to get and what thou hast, foret’st

Question 48

Macrocosm/existentialism

Answer 48

a breath thou art, servile to all the skyey influences that dost this habitation where thous keep’st hourly afflict

Question 49

Isabella held in high regard by lucio

Answer 49

i hold you as a thing ensued and sainted by your renouncement , an immortal spirit and to be talked in sincerity as with a saint

Question 50

Escapes says pompey attempts to deceive others but still is a bawd

Answer 50

you are partly a bawd, howsoever you colour it in being a tapster`

Question 51

Angelo’s outward experience reflects his heavenly persona

Answer 51

heaven hath my empty words while my invention anchors on isabel

Question 52

Duke’s final speech spoken in iambic tetrameter. greek chorus, makes him seem omnipotent

Answer 52

He who the sword of heaven will bear 1770

Should be as holy as severe