Measure - verbal wit

Question 1

Rogus

Answer 1

rhetorical choices mirror the victimization process, where verbal harassment becomes as threatening as physical assault. emphasizes that “the rhetoric speaks to Isabella’s plea to ‘speak the former language’ on a deeper level showing the oral sexual harassment’

The rhetoric stylistically illuminates the …the rhetorical choices also parallel the fight, flight, or freeze that many victims battle when enduring sexual attacks or rape

Question 2

Woodhouse

Answer 2

feminsit reading -play might see Isabella helping Mariana to outwit the men and end up with exactly what Mariana wants – ‘

Isabella defends angelo - ‘t Thoughts are no subjects/Intents but merely thoughts.

kneel’ ‘men moulded by faults

Question 3

Stevenson

Answer 3

the language in this scene is erotic, they have been copulating

Question 4

Schumann

Answer 4

Juliets ‘tendency towards resistance’ of ‘appropriation of the sacrament of penance’, through ‘subversive equivocation, grounded in the linguistic and theological controversies’

Has ‘a complex equivocation, using both syllepsis and amphibology.

‘I do repent me in that I have offended God”only ‘since it is a evil – idea, if it is evil

Question 5

Alderman

Answer 5

‘silent suffering women who stands in contrast to isabella’