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Isabella-Measure For Measure Act II, Scene 4

Isabella expresses her frustration with those in power who twist the law to suit their personal desires. She resolves to tell her brother Claudio about Angelo's proposition that he will spare Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him, believing her brother would sacrifice himself before allowing her chastity to be violated. Isabella decides she must preserve her virtue even if it means her brother will be put to death.

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Isabella-Measure For Measure Act II, Scene 4

Isabella expresses her frustration with those in power who twist the law to suit their personal desires. She resolves to tell her brother Claudio about Angelo's proposition that he will spare Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him, believing her brother would sacrifice himself before allowing her chastity to be violated. Isabella decides she must preserve her virtue even if it means her brother will be put to death.

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Isabella- Measure for Measure

Act II, Scene 4

To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,


Who would believe me? O perilous mouths,
That bear in them one and the self-same tongue,
Either of condemnation or approof;
Bidding the law make court'sy to their will:
Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite,
To follow as it draws! I'll to my brother:
Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood,
Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour.
That, had he twenty heads to tender down
On twenty bloody blocks, he'ld yield them up,
Before his sister should her body stoop
To such abhorr'd pollution.
Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die:
More than our brother is our chastity.
I'll tell him yet of Angelo's request,
And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest.

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