According to Professor Little's lecture, nunnery represents an anti-social place where sex is prohibited and innocence is praised. By joining the nunnery, Isabella is able to preserve her virginity and isolate herself from the society of licentiousness. The nunnery functions an anti-Vienna force, which the nunnery embodies morality, purity, and rigid order, as opposed to Vienna, a sex-driven place that welcomes corruption. The prison house that Claudio is sent to has some similar implications. Like the nunnery, the prison is a sexless environment. It punishes sexual immorality and indirectly suggests that morality and innocence should be advocated. These two places are oppositions against Vienna and reinforce morality and rules.
Xian Yan Liu
Section 1A Amanda Waldo
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