natural acts

no moral consequences
Prostitutes a commodity
Different morality
Don't understand the new laws
One law of upper class (Claudio)
characters treat food and banter - Lucio and Gents - insults about STD
sex in a similar way
Mistress O tells of Claudio's arrest Pompey says brothels to be closed
Scene 2
Claudio asks Lucio to tell his sister
Lucio and Claudio speak of his crime
Appearance = reality !
Act 1
Nunnery Lucio and Isabella

Another law for lower class (Pompey/Froth) Purpose Scene 4 Lucio speaks in iambic pentameter
accepts they have a Escalus shows mercy and Lucio gently mocks Isabella. Persuades her to intercede
different moral code ? indulgence to Pompey/Froth

Elbow - malapropisms
Pompey to execute Claudio for a
crime he has committed himself ! Arbitrary nature of justice Pompey - rambling
Scene 1
Angelo - bored so leaves
Difficulty of applying the law (reason) to matters of instinct - Rossiter Act 2
Pompey and Froth let off with a warning

Articulate
Dynamic M4M Comic Elbow, Pompey, Duke
Sub-plot Scene 2 Insults and rumour
Voice of common sense Lucio, Duke
Act 3
Revels in degeneracy
Link to main plot Lucio

Acts as the chorus in first few acts Scene 2 Pompey, Abhorson

antagonist to disguised Duke

Pompey and nicknames of prisoners
Openly sniping at Changes as play progresses
Act 4 Barnadine refuses to be executed
Duke in Act 5 Scene 3
Ragozine's head substitutes for Claudio's
Soldiers Characters
Gents Lucio slanders the Duke to the friar
want war - it's their job

Loves the sound of his own voice Lucio slanders the friar to the Duke
Duke irritated with Lucio
Same name as character in Julius Caesar Pompey
Bawdy interjections from Lucio
represents vice
Lucio accuses the friar of slander. Lucio reveals the Duke
Mistress Overdone Act 5
Barnadine forgiven
Elbow
Lucio repentant - has to marry a punk
Froth
Abhorson - represents justice

Comic Subplot.mmap - 01/07/2009 - Roger Knight