Measure - Patterns

Question 1

‘To know your pleasure’

Answer 1

Angelo 1.1 -Always obedient to your Grace’s will,
I come to know your pleasure.

2.4 - isabella - I am come to know your pleasure.

2018 donmar, it is is Isabellas response to dukes propsal, a symbol of subservience

Question 2

‘pregnant’

Answer 2

1.1 -‘for common justice , your as preganant in art/ speech and discourse

‘tis very pregannt, the jewel we stoop to take it’ 2.1

Question 3

measure

Answer 3

Duke 3.2 - defends angelo ‘recieved no sinsiter measure’

vs 5.1 ‘angelo for claudio, measure for measure’

Question 4

Severe

Answer 4

2.1-Justice - lord angelo is severe
2.2 - Isabella; ‘oh just but severe law
3.2 - escalus - brother justice so sevre he is indeed justice
3.1 - duke - heaven bear be as holy as severe

=embodies absencse of mercy

Question 5

Weigh(t)

Answer 5

1.1 - Claudio - demi god authority pay down offense by weight
2.2 - cannot weigh out brother by our self
2.4 - my false ouerwighs your true
4.2 - Provost = go sir you weigh equally, a feather will turn the scale

-extended methaphor of scales, shows injustice

Question 6

‘tis no sin’

Answer 6

2.4 - Must marry ‘tis no sin but charity
3.1- claudio - sure tis no sin, or of the deadly seven it is the least
4.1 - husband on pre contract, to bring you together tis no sin

Question 7

smile

Answer 7

2.2 - when men were fond i smiled and wondered how

5.1 - i did but smile till now (womens pleas comical)
-irony and hipocrisy
-smile’ as both mockery and pride

Question 8

Dark

Answer 8

3.2 - dark deeds darkly answered
4.3 - duke of dark corners

Question 9

nose

Answer 9

1.3 - Duke - liberty plucks justice by the nose
5.1 - lucio - did i pluck thee by the nose for thy speeches

‘pluck’ - extended metaphor of mockery of the law

Question 10

Grace

Answer 10

1.1 - ample grace and honour
4.4 - when grace we have forgot, nothing goes
5.1 - sequent death is all the grace i beg

-lanuage tracks angelos progressive fall from grace

Question 11

Seeming

Answer 11

1.3 - if power changes purpose, what our seemers be

3.2.4 - to thy false scheeming bloos thou art blood- lets write good angel

2.4 - isabella - pernicous purpose, seeming , seeming
3.1 - duke - well seeming angelo

3.2 - duke -from our faults, as faults from seeming free

=this symbol of duplciity, to look one way and be another

Question 12

False

Answer 12

2.4 - my false ourwighs your truth
3.2 -duke - pay with falsehood false exacting
4.1-duke - ‘millions of false eyes struck upon me’

Question 13

light

Answer 13

1.1 -not light them for ourselves..
3,2 - duke - dark deeds darkly answered, never bring them to light

-extended binary oppostions shows duplicity

Question 14

Fall

Answer 14

Escalus 2,1 -fall and bruise to death/ angelo - one thing to be tempeted another to fall /some rise by sin and by virtue fall

2.4 - claudio as ‘fallen by prompture of blood’

Question 15

Blood

Answer 15

duke 1.3 ‘scare confesses that his blood flows
1.4 lucio - blood is very snow broth
2.4 - claudio has -‘fallen by prompture of blood’
2.4 angelo - blood thou art bloos
Escalus 5.1 - condems angelo has ‘slipped in very heat of blood’

Question 16

Visage

Answer 16

3.1 -outward sainted deputy/with settled visage
4.3 -provost ‘satisfy deputy with visage/of ragozine’
5.1 lucio - ‘show your knaves visage/sheep biting face’

Question 17

justice

Answer 17

1.3 - friar-to loosen this tied up justice
2.1 angelo -whats made open/justice seizes
2.1 -ecalus - which is wiser here, justice or iniquity
5.1 =isabella ‘give me justice, jusitce, justice justice’

Isabella echos angelo in a mockery
5.1 -angelo -her brother cut of by cause of jsutce
isabella -‘by course of justice!’