Character Of Angelo Flashcards
Angelo suggests he is not ready or suitable just yet to be delegated all of the states power. A duplicitous personality is suggested here.
“Let there be (some more) test (made of) my mettle before so noble and so great a figure Be Stamp’d upon it.”
The Duke commmends Angelo for his austere, puritanical personality which borders on inhuman perfection
- Lord Angelo is precise/
-stands at guard with envy/ - scarce confesses that his blood flows/
-or that his appetite is more to bread than stone”
Claudio subtley critics Angelo’s growing narcissm and inflated ego which could be read as a mediation of religion and power.
Thus can the demigod Authority/ Make us pay down for our offence by weight/ The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will”
Claudio suggests using Animal imagery that this fight between the state and people is inherently unfair.
” As mice by lions- Hath pick’d out an act.”
Shakespeare conveys Jacobeaan patriarchal attittudes surroding the sexuality of women , specifically how patriarchy polices the sexuality of women.
- See you the fornicatress be removed
- Dispose of her
Angelo conveys a pedantic, rigid, fataslistic idea on sin and punishment.
“Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?
Why, every fault’s condemned ere it be done.
Angelo outsources his private morality to legal system freeing himself of any personal accountability.
It is the law, not I, condemn your brother”
Angelo personifies the law as an entity that has been dormant but now is reawakening suggesting justice and punishment may have been delayed but will ultimately prevail.
“Now ’tis awake,….like a prophet,
Looks in a glass that shows what future evils—Either now, or by remissness new-conceived”
Claudio uses the metaphor of Angelo figuratively riding the public like a “horse” to suggest that the public are being subjugated and oppressed under Angelo’s sovereignty.
whether that the body public be
A horse whereon the governor doth ride
Shakespeare is suggesting that the law is simply being used as political instruments induce a sense of public panic.
… Now puts the drowsy and neglected act Freshly on me: ‘tis surely for a nam
The duke uses Angelo as a scapegoat as Angelo will be assigned the label of tyrant while the duke can set himself as the ideological antithesis to Angelo as the tolerant diplomat, and the great liberator.
I have on Angelo imposed the office who may in the ambush of my name, strike home” yet without doing any “slander” to his “nature”
