Textual Quotations Flashcards
Isabella on the impossible choice
“More than our brother is our chastity”
Isabella as a nun
she wishes for “a more strict restraint”
What does Isabella think about sex?
It is “a vice” she does “most abhor”
What does Isabella think Claudio should do?
“O, let him marry her”
How does Shakespeare show sympathy for Claudio?
“of the deadly seven it is the least”
Women are just valued for their reproductive status
“Why you are nothing then: neither maid, widow nor wife!”
Isabella’s extremism
“I’ll pray a thousand prayers for thy death”
Angelo going to the dark side
“I give my sensual race the rein”
Angelo doesn’t really learn his lesson
“crave death; immediate sentence”
Isabella pitying Angelo and objectifying herself
“till he did look on me”
Subjugation of women
“Look on this man as if my brother lived”
Mariana being good
“the best men are moulded out of faults”
Mariana on her connection to Angelo
“knew me as a wife”
Duke being God
“your grace, like power divine”
Angelo’s coldness
“Angelo scarce confesses that his blood flows”
Duke using consent
“If you’ll a willing ear incline”
Duke being cold
“dribbling dart of love”
Duke just caring about appearances
“my nature never in the fight/To do slander”
Duke being too merciful
“the baby beats the nurse”
But is mercy actually a good thing?
“nothing suits so well as mercy does” - Isabella
No too much mercy is a bad thing
“Pardon is the nurse of second woe”
What did Duke do to Angelo?
“imposed the office”
Duke being a hypocrite
“mouthed with a beggar”
Why does Duke say he is so lenient?
“twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them for what I bid them do”
Duke keeps the principle of sex = death, thereby enacting the laws?
“you weigh equally, a feather will turn the scale”,
pardons Barnadine - “for those earthly faults, I quit them all”, “Friar, advise him”
Forgiving Barnadine is weakness
“I will not
consent to die this day, that’s certain.”
Duke’s opinions on the laws of Vienna
“needful bits and curbs”
Duke is a bad leader
“we have let slip”
Fornication is ok because marriage is a contract
“vowed contract”, “pre-contract”, “true contract”
