It's also interesting to consider how much of this Claudio might have planned when he asked Isabella to plead for him.
Exactly. Claudio sent her because he knew his sister was exactly Angelo's kind of girl. We also have Lucio who eggs Isabella on in a very suspicious way in the first meeting with Angelo. But even he balked when Isabella used her first double entrendre..I believe it was the "how will I bribe you" line(I don't have my book with me).
I also find it fascinating that Isabella agreed, of her own free will, to meet Angelo unchaperoned for their "love" scene. She took a big foolhardy chance in doing that little deed. What if Lucio had been with her then? The results would have been very different.
So Isabella is making a very different point, and so distinguishing herself from him as less rigid, I suppose, here, when she takes the "modern" morally relativistic view.
Hmm. Just what were they teaching her in that convent?
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Date: 2006-02-24 08:42 pm (UTC)Exactly. Claudio sent her because he knew his sister was exactly Angelo's kind of girl. We also have Lucio who eggs Isabella on in a very suspicious way in the first meeting with Angelo. But even he balked when Isabella used her first double entrendre..I believe it was the "how will I bribe you" line(I don't have my book with me).
I also find it fascinating that Isabella agreed, of her own free will, to meet Angelo unchaperoned for their "love" scene. She took a big foolhardy chance in doing that little deed. What if Lucio had been with her then? The results would have been very different.
So Isabella is making a very different point, and so distinguishing herself from him as less rigid, I suppose, here, when she takes the "modern" morally relativistic view.
Hmm. Just what were they teaching her in that convent?