THEME OF RELIGION Flashcards
How is religion represented in measure for measure?
Claudio wants to desire heaven more than earth but also desires to live demonstrating the idea that the logic that guides our spiritual aspirations can’t always be applicable to our corporeal realities.
“Sweet sister, let me live”
Isabella concludes her status as a chaste women is more valuble than her brothers life.
“Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die/ More than our brother is our chastity”
This line reflects the Dukes legalistic and authoritarian approach to morality and justice. He prioritizes legal technicalities over ethical considerations and uses his position of power to enforce his interpretation of the law, regardless of the consequences for those involved
He is your husband on a pre-contract/ To bring you thus together ’tis no sin/ Sith that the justice of your title to him/ Doth flourish the deceit.
Isabella argues that mercy is more than conceptual and abstract, it is as real as the phenomena of breathing,
If He which is the top of judgment should
But judge you as you are? O, think on that,
And mercy then will breathe within your lips
Like man new-made.
Isabella recognizes that while this moral code may be upheld in heaven or by divine decree, it may not necessarily be practiced or respected on Earth
‘Tis set down so in heaven, but not in earth
