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Measure For Measure's Isabella
Title: Measure For Measure's Isabella
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1858 | Pages: 7.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Measure For Measure's Isabella
In Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, one of his latest ‘problem plays’; the character of Isabella is a focal point of arguments. In the play she is faced with a decision: either to lose her virginity and save her brother’s life, or to stay chaste, get admitted to the convent, but sealing her brother’s fate. Isabella’s choice was obviously the latter, not only did she distinctly make that choice, but she also …showed first 75 words of 1858 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1858 total…Shakespeare is… showing his own attitudes towards [Isabella]’s choice” (Schanzer 111), but he also showed that quality even more vividly and with less controversy in a male character, Angelo. But even though Angelo’s hypocrisy is much more vivid and obvious than Isabella’s, it doesn’t strike as big a reaction from me. Maybe it is the subtlety and vagueness of Isabella’s hypocrisy and self-righteousness that makes it all the more dangerous.
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