Love UR Cell-F Remix

Attached is the Photo Remix Assignment for module 5. This assignment took a lot of thinking and trying to make something that seemed to make sense. I hope I was able to capture some sort of positive message using various images! Also, I think it becomes apparent that it is my duty to try and squeeze in the group that made me want to love myself more than I knew I could.

Existencially yours,

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In trying to find a sole audio that might be used for various moments in the play to back up my rationale on whether Isabella should choose to side with the church or side with marrying the duke, I just so happened to be listening to music and found lyrics from various songs that could serve as a way to demonstrate what choice Isabella would make. I know that the songs are all in Korean, but I have provided the lyric videos and time stamps for your convenience! 

Indecisive Isabella

Depiction of Isabella

The character of Isabella in Measure for Measure was unlike any female 

protagonist at the time.  She was a character that stood her ground for most of 

the play until the final moments in which the spotlight was taken away from 

her and she remained silent for the latter half of the final acts, even after 

being proposed to by the duke. 

What choice would she make? 

That is something we as readers never received a solid answer to but it may be evident in her previous actions. 

Only Desire

 From our initial introduction to the character of Isabella, we are presented with a woman who is determined and committed to becoming a nun. In fact, the first lines Isabella speaks are “And have you nuns no farther privileges?” (Shakespeare 1.4. 1) . Shakespeare elaborates further on her character with Isabella stating, “Yes, truly. I speak not as desiring more, but rather wishing for more strict restraint upon 

the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare” (Shakespeare 1.4 3-5). Isabella is the definition of virtue in her

 introduction.

If a song were needed to demonstrate Isabella’s character now, it would be Ateez's Desire that would fit best, specifically, the pre-chorus where the lyrics read:

 “That’s the reason I can breathe, I  can’t hold it in anymore, Oh I can’t help it myself 

yeah. The desire towards you is so selfish”

Isabella is set on becoming a part of the church and honoring its responsibilities but what might seem like 

a good choice for her would soon turn into her looking selfish later in the play. 

The line “The desire towards you is so selfish”(Ateez) serves as an allusion to the instance where Isabella 

is faced with choosing her virtue or her brother’s life where perhaps Claudio might have viewed her as 

selfish for choosing herself over her brother's life.

Can’t You See Me As I Am

One of the play's most prominent scenes was when Angelo taunts Isabella because it is her word against his. The word of a woman against that of a man. Angelo argues,

 “Who will believe thee, Isabel? My unsoiled name, th’ austereness of my life, my vouch against you, and my place I’th’ state” (Shakespeare 2.4 154-156)

Angelo is using his position in society over Isabella, saying whatever she has to argue would be meaningless in which Isabella opens her monologue by inquiring 

“Who would believe me? O perilous mouths” (Shakespeare 2.4 171)

She feels defeated at this point in the play and unheard and knows it is a risky approach to even challenge Angelo’s authority. 

Tomorrow x Together's song Can’t You See Me fits well because those lines in the song discuss not being seen and feeling trapped with nowhere to turn to. In this scene, Isabella is feeling the pressures of what 

being a woman in her society is like, she has no say unless she can find an authoritative figure that will 

make her be seen but for now, like TXT says, 

“My heart is heavy because you don’t understand me” (Tomorrow X Together)

Light A Flame 

Distraught, Isabella finds help in the form of the friar who tells her that Angelo was once betrothed to Marianna. The duke devises a plan in which Isabella will agree to have relations with Angelo but will actually be sleeping with Marianna. 

However, for this portion of the play, Seventeen's Light A Flame felt the most fitting, especially the line 

“We look at the light as we search for one another, our shadows meet to become one" (Seventeen)

An Uncomfortable Isabella with Angelo 

 Of course, owning a physical candle was hard to come by during this time, but metaphorically, Isabella and Angelo would become one under his eyes even though it was Marianna.

The title of the song felt fitting because we can see as

 readers that in the end, Isabella was able to preserve 

her innocence but at the hands of almost sacrificing 

Angelo. However, as readers, we know that Angelo 

was the one playing with fire from the get-go. 

Bring the Pain On

One of Isabella’s final words spoken was her seeking for the duke to pardon Angelo by pleading to the Duke,

 “A due sincerity governed his deeds. Till he did look on me. Since it is so, let him not die” (Shakespeare 5.1 449-451).

For the sake of Mariana, she pleads for Angelo to be pardoned so Mariana does not become a widow and instead becomes a wife. However, the Duke believes in marrying the two then her virtue will be honored, and she will have the opportunity to seek out a better husband after Angelo’s death. 

The duke then proceeds to propose to Isabella, but we never hear from her character again and if she agrees but like many say, silence speaks louder than words.

In choosing to be silent, she is silently denying the duke’s proposal and will most likely seek out the nunnery in the end. A once prominent character will now be able to do as she pleases. 

For this final scene, BTS’ ON felt to fit the ending, Isabella can stand her ground no matter what challenges her. One line of the song reads 

“Can’t hold me down cuz you know I’m a fighter, the beautiful prison I step into with my own feet, bring the pain on” (BTS)

Isabella is ready to tackle her new life no matter how many people may challenge her because of her

 decisions, she was strong from the start and will choose her destiny, remaining as single as a Pringle.