MEASURE FOR MEASURE - CHARACTER QUOTES (DESCRIPTIONS)

Question 1

CHARACTER: THE DUKE

GOOD

• Appears to the envious…
• Temperance…
• Above all other strifes…

BAD

• Superficial…
• He has dark….
• The old…. of…

Answer 1

GOOD

• “Appear to the envious a scholar, a statesman, and a soldier”
• “A gentlemen of all temperance”
• “Above all other strifes, contended especially to know himself”

BAD

• “A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow”
• “Dark deeds”
• “The old fantastical duke of dark corners”

Question 2

CHARACTER: ANGELO

GOOD

• Kind of…
• To undergo…
• A man of…
• Stands at a…

BAD

• the demi…
• Whose blood…
• Lord Angelo…
• Write…
• He is an outward…
• He is an adulterous…
• He is a virgin…

Answer 2

GOOD

• “Kind of character”
• “To undergo such ample grace and honour, it is Lord Angelo”
• “Man of stricture and firm abstinence”
• “Precise; stands at a guard with Envy”

BAD

• “The demi-god”
• “A man whose blood is very snow-broth”
• “Lord Angelo is severe”
• “Good angel on the devil’s horn”
• “Outward-sainted deputy”
• “Adulterous thief”
• “Virgin violator”

Question 3

CHARACTER: ESCALAUS

• He is a….
• Much…

Answer 3

• “Good friend”

- “Much goodness”

Question 4

CHARACTER: CLAUDIO

GOOD

• Had a…
• Strait in…
• Worth five…
• Too noble…

BAD

• Beast…
• Faithless…
• Dishonest…

Answer 4

GOOD

• “Had a most noble father”
• “Most strait in virtue”
• “Worth five thousand of you all”
• “Thou art too noble to conserve a life”

BAD

• “You beast!”
• “O faithless coward!”
• “O dishonest wretch

Question 5

CHARACTER: LUCIO

• A wicked…
• Groping…
• Burr…. shall stick…
• Knave…

Answer 5

• “Thou thyself art a wicked villain”
• “For trouts, in a peculiar river”
• “Kind of burr” “Shall stick”
• “First knave”

Question 6

CHARACTER: POMPEY

- Bawd is he…

Answer 6

• “Bawd is he doubtless, and of antiquity, too”

Question 7

CHARACTER: BARNARDINE

• Guiltless labour…
• Careless, reckless, and fearless…
• Apprehends death…

Answer 7

• “Fast lock’d up in sleep as guiltless labour”
• “Careless, reckless, and fearless of what’s past, present, or to come”
• “A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep”

Question 8

CHARACTER: ISABELLA

GOOD

• Enskied and sainted…
• Virtuous…
• The hand that hath made…
• Deflower’d…

BAD
- Cold…

Answer 8

GOOD

• “A thing enskied and sainted”
• “A very virtuous maid”
• “The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good”
• “A deflower’d maid”

BAD
- “You are too cold”

Question 9

CHARACTER: MARIANA

GOOD

• Head of the lady…
• Forenamed maid hath yet in her…

BAD

• Left her in…
• Disvalu’d…
• You are nothing then…

Answer 9

GOOD

• “Heard of the lady, and good words went with her name”
• “This forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance of her first affection

BAD

• “Left her in tears”
• “Reputation was disvalu’d”
• “Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife!”

Question 10

CHARACTER: JULIET

• Madam…
• You know the lady…

Answer 10

• “Madam Julietta”

- “You know the lady; she is fast my wife”