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
‘Ha? Fie, these filthy vices! It were as good To pardon him… as to remit
Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven’s image In stamps that are forbid’
Angelo to Isabella, 2.4
- Sees sin as inherent, sees no salvation for Claudio
‘Women? - Help, heaven! Men their creation mar in profiting by them’
Isabella to Angelo, 2.4
- Issue of gender and religion
‘Be that you are, That is, a woman; if you be more, you’re none… show it now, By putting on the destined livery’
Angelo to Isabella, 2.4
- Angelo defines her by her gender, giving him her body is part of fate to him
- In Act 3 Scene 1, Isabella describes Angelo as wearing the ‘cunning livery of hell’
‘What sin you do to save a brother’s life, Nature dispenses with the deed so far That it becomes a virtue’
Claudio to Isabella, 3.1
- Attempting to convince her to give in to Angelo
‘Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd; ‘Tis best that thou diest quickly’
Isabella to Claudio, 3.1
- Isabella’s change of heart and complexity clear
‘The goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever fair’
Duke to Isabella, 3.1
- Objectification to an extent, her virtuous nature maintains her body beautiful
‘He had some feeling of the sport; he knew the service; and that instructed him to mercy’
Lucio about Duke to Duke/Friar, 3.2
‘The justice of your title to him doth flourish the deceit’
Duke to Mariana, 4.1
- Flexible nature of moral law, regarding Angelo
‘You shall have your bosom on this wretch, Grace of the Duke, revenges to your heart’
Duke to Isabella, 4.3
- After having convinced her that Claudio truly died, fostering anger for Angelo
