Middle characters quotes (Mariana, Juliet, Claudio) Flashcards
When Claudio is being paraded in the streets he says:
‘why dost thou…
show me thus to the world’
he is being shown as a lesson to others
What metaphor about rats does Claudio use to describe his fate when talking to Lucio is Act 1?
‘like rats than raven down their proper bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die.’
essentially saying that like rats men swallow sweet poison until they die. Their proper bane means ‘their own destruction but also a type of poison. His sexual lust is the poison in the metaphor
Claudio when talking about Julietta says ‘ I got possession of…
Julietta’s bed.’
How does Claudio describe the unused laws in Vienna?
‘unscoured armour’
saying the armour, this weaponry and protection, is rusty and unused
How does the Provost describe Julietta?
‘blistered her report.’
lost her good reputation
What discussion do the friar and Julietta have?
Duke: So then it seems your most offenceful act was mutually committed
Julietta: mutually
Duke: Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.
What does Claudio say, accepting death, after he speaks with the friar?
‘to sue to live, I find I seek to die, And seeking death, find life. Let it come on.’
How does Claudio express that he thinks Isabella should sleep with Angelo?
‘sure it is no sin, Or of the deadly seven it is the least.’
How does Claudio try to convince Isabella that death would be horrible for him?
‘but to die, and go we know not where, To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot, this sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside in thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice, to be imprisoned in the viewless winds And blown with restless violence round about the pendent world.’
he suggests death is cold horrible and lonely
How does Claudio suggests to Isabella that saving him would be virtuous?
‘Sweet sister, let me live. What sin you do to save a brother’s life, Nature dispenses with the deed so far that it becomes a virtue.’
God will pardon her doing this as it is to save a life.
How does the Duke (Friar) describe where Mariana lives?
‘at the moated grange resides this dejected Mariana.’
she is living her life of grief in seculsion
How does Mariana react when she first sees the friar as someone she already knows?
’ Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice hath often stilled my brawling discontent’
this implies that the Duke has been dressing up as a friar for a long time
Why does the Duke think Mariana listening to music is bad?
Mariana:’my mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.’
Duke: ‘To make bad good, and good provoke to harm’
-the music did not incite me to frivolity but helped to soothe my melancholy. The music is about kissing
Usually Shakespeare celebrates the beneficial effects of music, but the Duke feels Mariana is using music to luxuriate in her feelings of grief and loss.
What does the name Mariana mean?
bitter
she is bitter about Angelo
How does the Duke convince Mariana that the bed trick is not sinful?
‘He is your husband on a pre-contract; to bring you thus together ‘tis no sin.’
duke is dressed as a Friar so have the authority on what is and is not sinful in her mind. Her and Angelo have a de future contract which means there were conditions to them becoming married, if the pairing is consummated they will be married in the eyes of the law.
