Need for order vs.

Christian
commandments (love your
Before this point play has been gaining moral enemies, turn the other cheek).
and emotional force. Dramatic tension justice and mercy
Or you get back what you give.
Suddenly the emotional temperature drops and blank Balance
Texture shifts at the severity of crime and severity of legal and social response
verse replaced by prose. All discussion of philosophy halfway point Act III
is replaced by devious methods of providing a solution scene I 151. law vs chastity; life vs death
to the problems presented.
Man-made law vs. God’
s moral law

Claudio and Lucio

Pregnancy - actual or metaphorical Symmetry Symmetry
Coinage and imprinting & Antithesis Angelo and Claudio

Sense - reason, awareness or sensuality, lust Images - interrelated - liberty and restraint
all allow a degree of
Knowing - cognition or sexual intercourse. Whole justice and mercy
flexibility or ambiguity in
drama plays on this double sense - action referring to sexual or man's justice vs. natural justice
suggests that true cognition of people is provided
non-sexual matters. Antithesis
by insights into their sexual natures and that such Old testament vs. New testament
cognition is a source of power over those people. chastity and fornication
eternal life and earthly life
Angelo deputises for Duke Measure
Duke substitutes his clothes for those of a friar (church authority) For Lucio threatened with severe treatment for slandering the Duke
Isabella’
s virginity demanded in exchange for Claudio’
s life Measure Barnadine, the murderer pardoned
Barnadine’
s head intended as substitute for Claudio’
s marriage used as a punishment
Mariana’
s virginity substituted for Isabella’
s Crime, Punishment
Deputies, substitutes and Lots of debate about the law
vicarious action & Justice. Proper Use of
Ragozine’
s head actually substituted for Claudio’
s Figure of Justice is silent apart from condemning Angelo
Power. Authority
Elbow's malapropisms Little improvement from earlier situation
Isabella asks Angelo to imagine himself like Claudio Judging the judges
Being and seeming - appearance vs. reality.
Sexual licence leads to
Claudio & Juliet, Overdone & Pompey, disease and exploitation
Angelo & Isabella, Escalus & the Duke Sexuality Sexual repression leads to
Play suggests that the moral worth of a character destructiveness and defilement
depends not so much on absence of vice of folly as
Education and Testing of various Physical brother / prison
on the ability of a character to recognise vice or folly Freedom and Restraint
in himself or herself and to be educable in the characters through harsh experience
direction of mature virtue. (C Watts, M4M Penguin Angelo
Master Series) Self-control
Isabella
Life and death

Measure For Measure.mmap - 06/04/2009 - Roger Knight