He would not, but by gift of my chaste body
To his concupiscible intemperate lust,
Release my brother; and, after much debatement,
My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour,
And I did yield to him;
-Isabella
Measure For MeasureAct V, Scene i, Line 104
Day three of Measure For Measure and there's a few things to look at here. For starters, how about that concupiscible intemperate lust? Wow, that a mouthful! And the chaste body? And let's not forget about the sisterly remorse confuting her honour. There's just a whole lot of language going on here.
So let's see; concupiscible is lustful or desirable, intemperate is lacking self control, and confutes is proves to be wrong. At least that's what they mean today. Still, keeping in mind that there are a lot of words that have changed significantly in meaning since 1600, I'm going to assume that these are the meanings of these words in todays Totally Random lines.
So Isabella is talking to the Duke about Angelo and she's saying that Angelo wouldn't release her brother unless she gave up her virgin body to Angelo's lustful, uncontrolled lust. And that after giving it some thought, her regret for her brother's situation outweighed her honour, and so she gave in to Angelo.
But not really.
In fact, Isabella tricked Angelo into thinking that she gave in to him when in fact she set him up. The rendezvous took place in the dark and it was another woman who gave up her questionably chaste body to Angelo.
Oh that Isabella is quite the trickster.
Day three of Measure For Measure and there's a few things to look at here. For starters, how about that concupiscible intemperate lust? Wow, that a mouthful! And the chaste body? And let's not forget about the sisterly remorse confuting her honour. There's just a whole lot of language going on here.
So let's see; concupiscible is lustful or desirable, intemperate is lacking self control, and confutes is proves to be wrong. At least that's what they mean today. Still, keeping in mind that there are a lot of words that have changed significantly in meaning since 1600, I'm going to assume that these are the meanings of these words in todays Totally Random lines.
So Isabella is talking to the Duke about Angelo and she's saying that Angelo wouldn't release her brother unless she gave up her virgin body to Angelo's lustful, uncontrolled lust. And that after giving it some thought, her regret for her brother's situation outweighed her honour, and so she gave in to Angelo.
But not really.
In fact, Isabella tricked Angelo into thinking that she gave in to him when in fact she set him up. The rendezvous took place in the dark and it was another woman who gave up her questionably chaste body to Angelo.
Oh that Isabella is quite the trickster.
Now this book looks old enough to be assured that the meanings of the words in here are the same as the meanings of the words as Shakespeare used them. But not really. This book has a 1941 copyright. Even so, I didn't use this book today. I cheated and used MW online. Oh that Pete is quite the trickster.
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