ISABELLA

LOVE OF GOD

• "Yes, truly. I speak not as desiring more,
• but rather wishing a more strict restraint,
• upon the sisterhood votarists of st Clare
• Act 2, Scene 4
• "Then, Isabelle, live chaste, and, brother, die."

EXPLAINATION:

• Literary term - caesurae:
• The caesurae creates breaks in the sentence, with emphasises the
• contrast between the lives of the two siblings. The suggestion that
• Isabella will live 'chaste' juxtaposes with her brother who will 'die',
• possibly referring to orgasm.

NARCISSISM

• "More than our brother is
• our chastity"
• Act 2, Scene 4

EXPLANATION

• Half rhyme between "die" & "chastity"
• Thinks her honour is more important than his life

LOVE OF FAMILY

• And "better it were a brother die at once,
• than that a sister, by redeeming him,
• should die forever"

EXPLANATION

• Lots of hard sounds "better", "brother", "died" and "redeemed"
• create a harsh tone, reflective of Isabella's situation.