Allusion Measure Flashcards
Lasnoski
‘Following the footsteps of Jesus, the Duke creates a living parable in Vienna.’
’ Vienna that is essentially an orchestrated, real-life parable for teaching’
link to parable of absent ruler - Luke
Angelo/judas
‘write good angel on devils horn’
-moral death as betrays good
-biblical intepreation, allegory of Judas’s betrayal
“Jeremaihi – Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool, inscribed with a diamond point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.” (NIV)
Bloom - Barnadine
Escalus describes his sleep as ‘guiltless labor’
‘introduced by an Ironic biblical allusion to** Escalates 5;12** The sleep of him that travaleith is sweet’
=how conforming is a labour
Angelo’s duplcity
Smith
‘self rightout, self protected puritanism’
=Angelo – Angel in disguise
‘What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side’
2 Corinthians 11:14 says, “And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light
Leone
How the demand for the head shows ‘intimate satisfaction, at the same
time perverse and disdainful’
a highly
symbolic value: it is a visualization of the triumph, a narcissistic gratification’’
Angelo’s pleasure in his power to have his will enacted, and to reap satisfaction from that power through the tangible token: he orders the severed head be brought “for my better satisfaction”.
mirrors The demand for the Baptist’s head from Herodias, “Give me here John Baptist’s head on a platter”, serves the same purpose of allowing for self-satisfied gloating in power over others.
Lasnoski
‘Duke’s living parable ‘=supplants power analgous of jesus to peter
Supplanted power
Hide ones light under a bushel
The Duke ‘ Heaven doth with us as we with torches do / Not light them for ourselves / For if our virtues do not shine forth Twere all alike as if we have them not’
jesus tells Peter, “neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel…Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your father’’ (Matthew)
-Duke instructing him to use virtues for benefit of others
-To show faith, our responsibility to shine light on God
Bloom = Play is reduced to like for like, shakesperae chose not to forgo his hidden blapshemy of the sermon on the mount
‘Measure for Measure’
This is generally understood to be a reference to the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 7:[6]
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
— Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 7, Verse 2
-Idea how God ulitmamlty judges us based on own actions
-We cannot uphold a divine law, best is to judge ‘measure’ against our own flawed nature
