Angelo Critic Quotations Flashcards
F. R. Leavis - “we should see ourselves in Angelo”
F. R Leavis - “he was placed in a position calculated to actualise his worst potentialities”
Frye - “Angelo is…. the most contemptible kind of hypocrite”
Wilson-Knight - “Angelo is not a conscious hypocrite: rather a man whose chief faults are self-deception and pride in his own righteousness”
L C Knights - “his lust, just like his forced chastity, is felt as something excessive, urgent and disproportionate to its demands”
L C Knights - “Angelo’s temptations and fall finely enforce the need for self-knowledge and sympathy, which seems to be the central moral of the play”
Dr Johnson - “every reader feels some indignation when Angelo is spared”
Dollimore - Angelo is a presentation of “authoritarian repression”
Stacy Magdenz - “Angelo, clinging to the letter of the law, is penitent, but still prefers death to redemption”
Empson - Isabella’s “coldness, even her rationality, is what has excited him”
David L. Stevenson - “the justice which Angelo had first insisted upon was improperly directed against a too easy, too passive target in Claudio; but at long last, it is properly, if paradoxically, directed against himself” / “a result of his own self-judgement”
James Middleditch - “Angelo’s own natural tendency towards the super-ego is extended even further when he becomes the symbolic super-ego of the city itself, pulling down the brothels in an attempt to repress its collective sexual urges”
Carruthers - “Angelo starts out as an Archetype of Puritanism, a one-dimensional character of whom we, conditioned not to accept perfect morality, are instantly suspicious”
