The Duke Quotes Flashcards
The Duke about why he is leaving
‘I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes. Though it do well…
I do not relish well their loud applause and aves vehement.’
What does the Duke say about life away from power?
‘I have ever loved the life removed.’
What does the Duke say about strict statutes?
‘We have strict statutes and most biting laws, the needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds’
What is the lion metaphor the Duke uses about the law in Vienna?
‘like an o’ergrown lion in a cave that goes not out to prey.’
the law is fierce and scary but does not hunt and so is not feared
What metaphor about beating children does the Duke use about the law in Vienna?
‘as fond fathers, Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch, only to stick in in their children’s sight for terror, not to use, in time the rod becomes more mocked than feared.’
the naughty children of Vienna do not fear the law
What does the Duke say about liberty and justice?
‘liberty plucks justice by the nose.’
What quotes show the way that the Duke as a priest tries to convince Claudio that life is pointless and he might as well accept death?
‘thou art Death’s fool, For him thy flight to shun And yet runs’t toward him still’
-you try to run away from death but actually you are continually running towards it
‘like an ass , whose back with ingots bows, thou bear’st they heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.’
- death is a relief
‘Thou hast nor youth, nor but as it were an after-dinner’s sleep Dreaming on both, for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged and doth beg the alms of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich, thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty to make thy riches pleasant. What’s in this that bears the name of life?’
- you never live fully and contentedly in the present as young people lack money to enjoy their pleasures and old people lack the ability to extract money from pleasure
After secretly listening to Claudio and Isabella speak what does the Duke lie about to Isabella?
‘I am confessor to Angelo.’
What does the Duke say to Isabella about her beauty and chastity?
‘The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.’
How does the Friar describe the way Angelo treated Mariana?
‘swallowed his vows whole, pretending in her discoveries of dishonour.’
-pretends she has been in sexual misconduct, the real reason is financial for him breaking off their engagement
‘he, a marble to her tears.’
-he was cold, hard and unaffected by her sadness at him doing this, her tears did not permeate his stone
How does the Friar describe Mariana’s feelings for Angelo?
‘His unjust unkindness, that in all reason should have quenched her love, hath, like an impediment in the current, made it more violent and unruly.’
her love and passion has grown now that he doesn’t want her
How does the Friar convince Isabella of his plan? why does she go along with it
‘your brother saved, your honour untainted, the poor Mariana advantaged, and the corrupt deputy scaled’
scaled, weighed up
she trusts him because she believes he is an actual friar and everything seems like a win win situation.
Where does the Friar tell Isabella to make Angelo go to have sex?
’ a place may have all shadow and silence in it.’
what does the Duke’s words the ‘doubleness of the benefit.’ refer to in terms of the bed trick?
doublesness- Mariana and Isabella
but the word is ambiguous, it also means deceitfulness, perhaps the Duke is describing the action as a beneficial trickery.
How does the Duke contrast Angelo’s hypocrisy in virtue with Pompey’s honesty in sin.
‘That we were all, as some would seem to be, Free from our faults as faults from seeming free.’
were all men as free from sin as Angelo seems or as Pompey is free from hypocrisy
