Isabella

• Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel!'


  'Poor' indicates she will be a victim later on no matter how happy she seems falling in love with Lorenzo. Highlights her vulnerability early on providing a sense of inevitability of the tragic outcome
• They could not'


  anaphora - cements idea love is natural & destined meaning they have no choice but to be with each other. Entrapment in passionate love - naturally bound together - no other options
• But her full shape would all his seeing fill'


  Constantly in each other's thoughts - relationship all they think about. Love all-consuming & obsessive as takes over whole lives. Unhealthy - obsessive yearning not sustainable, heightens inevitability of tragic outcome
• Fevered his high conceit of such a bride'


  Lorenzo aware of lower social standing - aware love is forbidden given inequality. Error of judgement as they will never be able to marry and they know this yet still hope to. Delusion - agency
• They seemed to tread upon the air'


  The couple is elevated through love. Euphoric feeling as though they are brought into romanticised fantasy. Moment of happiness undermined by inevitability that it will be followed by disaster
• There is richest juice in poison-flowers'


  Relationship = poison flowers encompassed w sweetness. Know its bad - always want what's bad for us. Aware of danger yet choose to ignore it - agency in downfall
• The seal on the cold ice with piteous bark lay full of darts'


  Seals exploited for products. Cruel, unprincipled nature of brothers - typical villains. Slavery & exploitation - benefiting from other people's suffering
• Isabella plans to dig up Lorenzo's grave in a plan 'She had devised'


  Own actions are what lead to further descent into madness - agency in tragic outcome. Although driven by grief, she goes to extreme - eventually lead to death
• What feverous hectic flame burns in thee, child? - What good can betide?'


  Isabella in distress - descent into madness after realising brothers actions. Wasting away after loss - can't live w/out him. Unhealthiness of relationship - love sickness turning to physical illness
• And she forgot the stars, the moon, and the sun, And the forgot...'


  Obsessive love has caused her to depart from real world. Can no longer find joy in anything - no reason to live. Tragic impact of evil actions
• Will die a death too lone and incomplete'

  After basil pot stolen

  Tragic consequence of obsessive love - invested so much of life into relationship and now left w nothing. Tragic victim of brothers' cruel action
• No heart was there in Florence but did mount in pity of her love, so overcast'


  Forces reader to pity her. Everyone in story felt pity - def deserving of it. Feeling of great loss and sadness about tragic ending
• O cruelty, to steal my basil-pot away from me!'


  No sense of resolution - just ended in suffering for everyone. Brothers agents of suffering & everyone a victim of their actions. No hope - emptiness & disillusionment