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
How does Lucio suggest the Duke is sexually promiscuous with beggars?
‘your beggar of fifty; and his use was to put a ducat in her clack dish.’
this sexual innuendo suggests the Duke sleeps with beggar women, he alternatively may have just been being charitable
‘he would mouth with a beggar thou she smelt brown bread and garlic.’
-bad breath
How does Lucio suggest the Duke is unbalanced? How does the Friar respond to this?
‘a very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.’
Duke thinks it ‘envy in you, folly, or mistaking.’
Friar describes himself as ‘a scholar, a statesman, and a soldier.’ He sees himself as fitting the Renaissance ideal of being both a man of action and of learning
Although Lucio says he ‘knows and ‘loves’ the Duke this is very questionable and may fit into Lucio’s extravagence
How does Lucio suggest the Duke has had sexual misdemeanours?
‘The Duke yet would have dark deeds darkly answered.’
- sexual acts performed in Darkness
‘The Duke would eat mutton on Fridays’
-eating mutton on Fridays breaks the ecclesiastical laws that forbade eating meat on Friday but is also a pun on ‘mutton’ as prostitute.
How does the Duke articulate, after speaking to Lucio, that neither political power nor nobility of character can escape hostile criticism?
‘no might nor greatness in mortality can censure scape.’
What does the Duke say at the end of Act 3 about how severe those who administer justice should be?
‘He who the sword of heaven will bear/ Should be as holy as severe.’
sword is an emblem of legal authority to punish wrongdoers
The Duke has no theoretical objection to capital punishment but feels that keepers of justice should have degree of holiness if they wish to be severe
How does the Duke end his soliloquy at the end of Act 3?
‘With Angelo tonight shall lie/ His old bethrothed, but despised;/ So disguise shall by the disguised/ Pay with falsehood false exacting/ And perform an old contracting.’
The verbal balance in these lines despise- disguise falsehood- false reflects the plays concern for measure for measure
disguise- trickery
How does the Duke suggest he is scrutinised by millions of people in a soliloquy?
‘O place and greatness, millions of false eyes are stuck upon thee; volumes of report run with their false and most contraries quests.’
those that have power are scrutinised by millions of hostile onlookers and are pursued and hunted by gossip and unkind jokes
What does the Duke mean when he describes Angelo ‘his life is paralleled Even with the stroke and line of his great justice.’
paralleled- Angelo’s private life and his behaviour as a judge as compared to a set of paralleled lines, they do not cross over.
The lines also refer to Angelo writing out legal judgements
stroke also can indicate capital punishment. stroke could be the axe of execution and line like the hanging
What does the Duke say to justify him lying to Isabella about her brother being saved?
‘I will keep her ignorant of her good, To make her heavenly comforts of despair When it is least expected.’
he wants to surprise her and make her happy, could also argue he feels she will be more likely to accuse Angelo is her brother is in her mind dead
How does the Duke tell Isabella to accuse Angelo?
‘Accuse him home and home.’
home and home has an intensifying effect
How does Lucio say that if the Duke had been in power instead of Angelo then Claudio would have lived?
'’if the old fantastical Duke of dark corners had been home, he had lived.’
dark corners implies he hides in dark places but has sexual connotations of him secretly being with women
Why does Lucio describe the duke as ‘a better woodsman than thou take him for.’ to the Friar
he describes the Duke as one who hunts in a forest, aka that he chases after women
How does the Duke suggest that Isabella is speaking out against Angelo is a sign of her mental illness? even though he knows it is true (stirrer Duke)
‘Away with her. Poor soul, She speaks this in the infinity of sense.’
When the Duke dressed back up as a friar how does he express corruption in Vienna in Act 5?
‘I have seen corruption boil and bubble Till it o’errun the stew.’
double meaning stew, as stew pot cooking and brothel;
boil out the side of the pot and spread corruption outside of the brothel.
What is the Measure for Measure speech the Duke makes?
‘An Angelo for Claudio, death for death; Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure; Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure.’
OLD TESTAMENT EYE FOR AN EYE
‘We do comdemn thee to the very block Where Claudio stooped to death.’ (to Angelo)
How does the Duke suggest he wants to marry Isabella? ( 2 quotes)
‘give me your hand and say you will be mine.’
‘what’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.’
