Quotes

Question 1

Angelo test

Answer 1

‘let there be some more test made of my metal’

Question 2

Angelo morality and mercy

Answer 2

‘mortality and mercy in Vienna live in thy tongue, and heart’

Question 3

The Duke the people

Answer 3

‘i love the people, but do not like to stage me to their eyes’

Question 4

Claudio restraint

Answer 4

‘so every scope by the immoderate use turns to restraint’

Question 5

Armour

Answer 5

‘like unscour’d armour, hung by th’wall’

Question 6

Isabella persuasive

Answer 6

‘she has a prosperous art when she will play with reason and discourse’

Question 7

The Duke isolation

Answer 7

‘ever lov’d the life remov’d’

Question 8

Angelo personality

Answer 8

‘a man of stricture and firm abstinence’

Question 9

Laws in vienna

Answer 9

‘we have strict statutes and most biting laws…which for fourteen years we have let slip’

Question 10

Baby

Answer 10

‘Liberty plucks Justice by the nose, the baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart goes all decorum’

Question 11

The Duke’s fault

Answer 11

'’twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them for what i bid them do’

Question 12

Seemers

Answer 12

‘hence we shall see if power change purpose, what our seemers be’

Question 13

Isabella restraint

Answer 13

‘I speak not as desiring more, but rather wishing a more strict restraint’

Question 14

Lucio Isabella

Answer 14

‘I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted’

Question 15

Lucio the Duke’s gone

Answer 15

‘the Duke is very strangely gone from hence’

Question 16

Angelo blood

Answer 16

‘a man whose blood is very snow-broth’

Question 17

Angelo punishing Claudio

Answer 17

‘follows close the rigour of the statute to make him an example’

Question 18

Scarecrow

Answer 18

‘we must not make a scarecrow of the law’

Question 19

Tempted Escalus

Answer 19

‘tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, another thing to fall’

Question 20

Angelo and low-lives

Answer 20

‘hoping you’ll find good cause to whip them all’

Question 21

Pompey to Esaclus

Answer 21

‘does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city?

Question 22

Elbows malapropisms

Answer 22

‘detest’ v protest
‘cardinally’ v carnally
‘respected’ v suspected

Question 23

Isabella virtue

Answer 23

‘a very virtuous maid’

Question 24

Juliet

Answer 24

‘the fornicatress’

Question 25

Giant

Answer 25

'it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant'

Question 26

breeds

Answer 26

'my sense breeds with it'

Question 27

Bribe

Answer 27

'how! Bribe me?'

Question 28

Tempt

Answer 28

'is this her fault, or mine? The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most'

Question 29

Angelo whore

Answer 29

'never could the strumpet...stir my temper: but this virtuous maid subdues me quite'

Question 30

Angelo's lust

Answer 30

'the strong and swelling evil of my conception'

Question 31

Horn

Answer 31

'let's write good angel on the devil's horn'

Question 32

Isabella crafty

Answer 32

'either you are ignorant, or seem so, crafty'

Question 33

Sister die

Answer 33

'better it would a brother dies at once, than that a sister, by redeeming him, should die forever'

Question 34

Isabella innuendo

Answer 34

'keen whips'

Question 35

Angelo's power in society

Answer 35

'my false o'erweighs your true'

Question 36

Race

Answer 36

'i give my sensual race the reign'

Question 37

Isabella chastity

Answer 37

'more than our brother is our chastity'

Question 38

Outward

Answer 38

'o, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!'

Question 39

Angelo satan

Answer 39

'a devil'

Question 40

Isabella cruel to Claudio

Answer 40

'I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death; no word to save thee'

Question 41

Scale

Answer 41

'a feather will turn the scale'

Question 42

Lucio the duke

Answer 42

'the old fantastical duke of dark corners'

Question 43

Angelo's crimes

Answer 43

'an adulterous thief, an hypocrite, a virgin-violator'

Question 44

Isabella the Duke truth

Answer 44

'let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seem hid, and hide the false seems true'

Question 45

the Duke women

Answer 45

'why you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife!'

Question 46

Measure at the end

Answer 46

'Measure still for Measure'

Question 47

Corruption

Answer 47

‘Corruption boil and bubble’