ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Claudio: Isabella’s brother and a gentleman, betrothed to Juliet. Lucio: A “fantastic, ” Claudio’s friend. Thomas: A friar.

Detailed explanation-2: -Claudio. Isabella’s brother Claudio is a young man sentenced to death for impregnating an unmarried woman. He was engaged to her by a common-law agreement, but they had sexual intercourse before the legal marriage took place.

Detailed explanation-3: -Claudio is brother to Isabella and engaged to Juliet. He is one of the first victims of Angelo’s strict new government when he is arrested for getting Juliet pregnant outside of marriage and sentenced to die. The harshness of his sentence shocks everyone at the start of the play and drives much of the action.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vincentio, Duke of Vienna. He leaves Vienna in Angelo’s charge and returns disguised as Friar Lodowick to watch developments while incognito. Of some 2, 600 lines in Measure for Measure, the duke speaks nearly 800, only slightly less than one-third. He acts as a deus ex machina to turn the play from tragedy to comedy.