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"At the conclusion of " 'Tis Pity She's a Whore" do you condemn or sympathise with Annabella and Giovanni? Would a Caroline audience have felt the same?"  

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This got a B+... "At the conclusion of " 'Tis Pity She's a Whore" do you condemn or sympathise with Annabella and Giovanni? Would a Caroline audience have felt the same?" In this play it would be impossible to accurately assess this idea commenting on Annabella and Giovanni as a single entity. They are extremely different characters with their only common ground being the love they have for each other, and even this is expressed in distinctly different ways with subsequently different consequences. These consequences build up to the conclusion referred to in the question, and so it would also prove hard to answer it directly without having previously discussed what has come before and created such conclusion. At the beginning of the play, I believe that the audience is intended to sympathise with Giovanni. Although his actions are described as 'devilish atheism', this is counterbalanced by his modest language which contrasts greatly...

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