Measure For Measure Quotes Flashcards
‘Lent him our terror, drest him with our love,
And given his deputation all the organs
Of our own power’
Duke, 1.1
- Angelo’s transformative power, peril brought by government
‘Enforce or qualify the laws
as to your soul seems good’
Duke to Angelo, 1.1
‘Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what with the gallows, and what with poverty, I am custom-shrunk’
Mistress Overdone, 1.2
- Social reality of Vienna
- ‘Liberty, As surfeit, is the father of much fast’
- ‘Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil’
Claudio, 1.2
- Views human nature as corrupt as opposed to Duke’s ‘as to your soul seems good’
- Repenting
‘Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
Can pierce a complete bosom’
Duke, 1.3
- Ironic considering his bid for Isabella’s hand in marriage
‘Liberty plucks Justice by the nose’
Duke, 1.3
- Echoes Claudio’s talk of Liberty
- Mismanagement of law and order
- ‘Lord Angelo is precise; stands at guard with Envy’
- ‘Hence shall we see If power change purpose’
Duke, 1.3
- Foreshadowing Angelo’s fall
- Continuing personification of moral qualities
‘Hail virgin, if you be - as those cheek-roses
Proclaim you are no less’
Lucio to Isabella, 1.4
- Constant judgement from men
‘What’s open made to justice, That justice seizes… ‘Tis very pregnant, the jewel that we find, we stoop and take’t’
Angelo to Escalus, 2.1
- Unwavering view on justice, materialistic and opportunistic
‘Let mine own judgment pattern out my death, And nothing come in partial’
Angelo to Escalus, 2.1
- Foreshadows Angelo’s death sentence
‘Whip me? No, no, let the carman whip his jade; The valiant heart’s not whipt out of his trade’
Pompey, 2.1
- inherent nature of jobs
‘But man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority…
His glassy essence - like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep’
Isabella to Angelo, 2.2
- Blasphemous nature of Angelo’s actions
‘O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,
With saints dost bait thy hook!’
Angelo, 2.2
- Narcissism, obsessed with his virtue as he sees himself in Isabella (Psychoanalytical)
Duke: ‘Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?’
Juliet: ‘I do repent me as it is an evil, And take the shame with joy’
Duke and Juliet 2.3
- Motherhood as sin, Juliet subdued and mostly silent
‘Why does my blood thus muster to my heart… so The general subject to a well-wished king Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love Must needs appear offence’
Angelo soliloquy, 2.4
- Describes his growing desire for Isabella as far too much governmental worship
