Measure for Measure | Isabella (Character Analysis)
She is Claudio's sister. She becomes a novice of the order of Saint Clare on the same day that her brother is arrested and condemned to death for fornication. Claudio sends his friend Lucio to seek out Isabella at the convent and ask her to beg the deputy, Angelo, for her brother's life. "In her youth," Claudio explains,
As it turns out, Isabella's youthful beauty and skill at...There is a prone and speechless dialect
Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art
When she will play with reason and discourse,
And well she can persuade.
(I.ii.182-86)
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