Isabella critical quotations

• Isabella's flaws arise from her in experience - Josephine Waters bennet
• " spiritual arrogance " -Daryl Gless
• Isabella is " holding a hollow sculpture of virtue to hide inside of " - Irene McGarrity
• Her desire to enter a convent is " prompted more by an adolescent girl's fear of the world than by genuine volition " - Northrop Frye
• Isabella has no real affection for Claudio - G. Wilson Knight
• isabella agrees to the bed trick " because a holy man advised her to do so " - Wilbur Dunkel
• More than our brother is our chastity is a formal statement of belief , rather than an inner revelation of feeling - smith