measure sexuality

Question 1

Juliet stevenson

Answer 1

The language in this scene is erotic…Isabella and Angelo have been copulating across the verse ever since they met’

Question 2

Bloom - Freud

Answer 2

That would make Isabella the type of all those gifted and beautiful, disturbed and disturbing hysterical muses of psychoanalysis, the women of Vienna whom Freud and his disciples both exalted and exploited.

Question 3

Bloom - sade

Answer 3

Sade’s fusion of political authority, spiritual dominance, and sexual torture is anticipated by Angelo

Question 4

Hawkins

Answer 4

Angelo as saint, sensualist, and as a sadist

Question 5

Bloom - sex =death

Answer 5

Freud’s, reality comes down to sex and death, though Vincentia’s city is even closer to the formula: sex equals incest equals death.

Question 6

Alderman -duke to juliet

Answer 6

language of sexual origin and maternal dependence caries the weight of the Duke’s disgust

Question 7

Sinfeild

Answer 7

‘spectre of unregulated desire legitimatizes authoritarian repression ‘