Angelo quotes Flashcards
(38 cards)
The Duke about Angelo
‘lent him our terror, dressed him with…
our love And given his deputation all the organs of our own power.’
antithesis, love and terror needed to rule
Escalus about Angelo at beginning
‘If any in Vienna be of worth to…
undergo such ample grace and honour It is Lord Angelo.’
Angelo has a good reputation
Angelo
‘Let there be some more test…
made of my mettle.’
What does Claudio call Angelo?
‘the demi-god, authority.’
unhuman, unfeeling, uses power too quickly. It is a sin to act as a God
What does the Duke say about Angelo when wanting to see if the power he has received will change his puritanical ways?
‘scarce confesses that his blood flows, or that his appetite is more to bread than stone. Hence shall we see if power changes purpose.’
Angelo lacks sexual appetite, shown by lack of blood and the bread and stone, looks to see if Angelo’s behaviours will change.
What does Lucio say about Angelo’s sexual desires and his ‘blood’?
‘Lord Angelo, a man whose blood is very snow broth.’
blood means sexual desire due to the belief in the four humours. snow is cold and thus his blood and sexual desire is non existant
What does Angelo say about scarecrows?
‘we must not make a scarecrow of the law.’
this metaphor is expressed by the way scarecrows do not actually enforce their fear and therefore after a while can be ineffective
What does Angelo say about being tempted to Escalus?
'’tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall.’
When Angelo and Escalus are hearing about Elbow and Pompey what does Angelo say when he gets bored and leaves to Escalus?
‘Hoping you’ll find good cause to whip them all.’
dark desire to punish
How does Angelo describe Claudio to Isabella?
‘Your brother is a forfeit of the law.’
How does Angelo personify the law?
‘The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.’
What is Isabella’s speech about Angelo in Act 2 scene 2 ? (little brief authority)
‘But man, proud man, Dressed in little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as would make angels weep, who with our spleens would all themselves laugh mortal.’
apes, mimic human behaviour and look ridiculous, similarly man becomes ridiculous when he tries to mimic God, Ape also implies bad tempered and petulant
assured, the passage is an attack on human arrogance
glassy essence- glass is brittle and mirror, perhaps suggesting we can’t see his inner evil essence
the angels would laugh until they become mortal
What does Angelo say when he realises Isabella has a point?
‘she speaks , and ‘tis such sense that my sense breeds with it.’
ambiguous, talking about sexuality or saying her argument is good. Breeds is a role reversal, meaning Isabella impregnates him with her ideas but also has sexual connotations.
In Angelo’s soliloquay what rhetorical questions does he ask?
‘What’s this, what’s this? The tempter of the tempted who sins most, ha?’
is it her fault for tempting him or his fault for feeling tempted? Tempter is also a reference to the devil
rhetorical questions and repetition shows his confusion at these sexual feelings
What metaphor did Angelo use about carrions and violets?
‘it is I That lying by the violet in the sun Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, corrupt with virtuous season.’
Violet is a flower associated wit modesty chastity and fragrance
carrion is the decaying flesh of dead animals, also flesh of man, the evil within
the sun and violet symbolise Isabella, oxymoronic as she is both chaste but exciting and sexually stimulating
the heat of the sun corrupts the meat but makes the flower grow and blossom
How does Angelo suggest that he desires Isabella for her purity?
‘Dost thou desire her foully for those things that make her good?’
desires her for her saintliness, her purity makes her attractive
How does Angelo question if he loves Isabella?
‘What, do I love her? That I desire to hear her speak again, And feast upon her eyes?’
feast, gluttony sinful, sexuality
How does Angelo describe the effect Isabella has on him?
‘this virtuous maid subdues me quite. Ever till now when men were fond, I smiled and wondered how.
she has awakened the sexual feelings he sees in other men
How does Angelo express his desire to talk of Isabel?
‘hearing not my tongue, anchors on Isabel’
subconsciously he wants to talk of her
What quote shows Angelo’s duality?
‘let’s write good angel on the devil’s horn.’
horn is a sexual phallic symbol, it has images of cuckoldry and sexual devilishness. He wants to disguise this inner aspect of himself by writing ‘good angel’ and thus hides himself in a pure exterior.
When Angelo meets Isabella again how is his sexual feeling shown?
‘Why does my blood muster to my heart.’
How does Angelo initially proposition Isabella?
Angelo: ‘to redeem him, give up your body to such sweet uncleanness as she that he hath stained?’
Isabella: ‘Sir, believe this, I had rather give my body than my soul.’
oxymoronic sweet uncleanness. She would rather die that have sex
How does Angelo try to convince Isabella that sleeping with him is the nobel and good thing?
‘might there not be a charity in sin To save this brother’s life?’
What does Angelo want Isabella to lay down?
‘you must lay down the treasures of your body To this supposed or else let him suffer.’
treasure, virginity= a kind of wealth
this imagery also invokes discovery
