'Tis Pity She's A Whore Act 1 Scene 1

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Friar to Giovanni 'wits that presumed...
...on wit too much' -friar warns Giovannit against intellectual pride
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Friar to Giovanni. Those who tried to reason against God 'Discovered the nearest way to Hell,/...
...And filled the world with devilish atheism.' Intellectual pride and reasoning against God leads to damnation
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Friar to Giovanni 'for better 'tis,/...
...To bless the sun than reason why it shines.' Metaphor, just accept God's existence
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Giovanni to the Friar 'Too you I have...
...unclasped my burdened soul.' Metaphor, Giovanni has told the Friar his secrets
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Giovanni asks the Friar 'Must I not do what...
...all men else may - love?' Rhetorical question, the audience sympathise with Giovanni
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Giovanni to the Friar about Annabella 'the gods/ Would..
...make a God.' Annabella is someone the Gods would see as their equal
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Giovanni to the Friar 'brother and sister, be a bar/...
...Twiat my perpetual happiness and me?' First time Giovanni reveals to the audience that the one he loves is his sister
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Giovanni to the Friar 'say one womb/ (curse to my joys!) gave us both life...
...and birth;/ Are we not therefore each to other bound/ So much the more by nature.'
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Giovanni to the Friar 'One soul, one flesh,...
...one love, one heart, one all?'
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Friar to Giovanni 'For thou hast moved a majesty above/...
...with thy unranged (almost) blasphemy.'
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Friar to Giovanni 'Hast thou left the schools/...
...of knowledge, to converse with lust and death?' foreshadowing
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Giovanni tells the Friar he cannot ignore his lustful thoughts about Annabella 'It were more ease to stop the ocean/...
...From floats to ebbs.'
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Friar to Giovanni 'in thy wilful flames/...
...Already see thy ruin.'
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Giovanni asks the Friar to tell him how to redeem himself 'Beg heaven to cleanse...
...the leprosy of lust/ That rots thy soul.'
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Friar to Giovanni, opening lines 'Dispute no more in the, for know...
...young man,/ These are no school-points.' Play opens mid-argument
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...And filled the world with devilish atheism.' Intellectual pride and reasoning against God leads to damnation

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Friar to Giovanni. Those who tried to reason against God 'Discovered the nearest way to Hell,/...

Card 3

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...To bless the sun than reason why it shines.' Metaphor, just accept God's existence

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Card 4

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...unclasped my burdened soul.' Metaphor, Giovanni has told the Friar his secrets

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Card 5

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...all men else may - love?' Rhetorical question, the audience sympathise with Giovanni

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