Angelo Critics Flashcards
What does Paul Cheetham say about Angelo?
‘Angelo is lacking in humanity- not the man to exercise discretion and flexibility in law application.’
What does Paul Cheetham say about the initial discussion between Angelo and Isabella?
‘The contrast between Isabella’s lyrical eloquence and Angelo’s dry inflexibility makes the audience condemn his hypocrisy and inhumanity.’
What does Patsy Hall say about Angelo?
‘Despite Angelo’s efforts to clean up the city, he succumbs to the sinning he is trying to prevent.’
What does John Mullan say about characters who want to punish others in the play?
‘Characters who are righteously keen to punish surely have something dark in themselves’
Wasson believes what about Angelo?
‘Angelo is too virtuous, but for this to be worth anything, it must be tested.’
Wasson on Angelo’s character
‘Here is a man, then, who knows what is right, who wishes to do what is right, but who is unable to do it because he is controlled by his passions. ‘
Magedanz on the introduction of Angelo
‘When we first encounter Angelo, he seems to have almost no personal qualities at all; he is his role, all magistrate and no person.’
How does Pennington see Angelo’s sexuality?
‘In the case of Angelo, you are dealing with someone who is obviously a very efficient and competent career man but who knows nothing at all about himself sexually and is very much out of touch with that side of his personality. So that, when his sexuality is triggered off, it is of a very adolescent and uncertain kind.’
What is Pennington’s view of Angelo’s crime?
‘I felt very strongly that Angelo’s crime is not what he thinks it is. He thinks it is desiring a saint, whereas it is a political crime; it is a monstrous abuse of his position, so that I think the crux of his downfall is political’
What does Martin argue?
‘Angelo lacks self-knowledge’
How does Marian Cox argue Angelo attempts to act in a beyond human manner?
‘Angelo has to learn to moderate the exercise of power, as well as accept that he is only human.’
How does Tony Martin interpret Angelo’s failure?
‘Angelo’s failure is not only a moral failure: it is a failure of understanding what it means to be human’
How does Fiona Dunlop suggest Angelo is used to show the problems of a flawed person having too much power?
‘the character of Angelo has been designed (discreetly) of the problems inherent in investing one flawed individual with absolute power.’
What does Patsy Hall say about those who make the rules?
‘Those who make the rules are as tainted as those who break them.’
What does Paul Cheetham say about Angelo’s implementation of the law?
‘Angelo’s rigid and unquestioning implementation of the letter of the law is contrasted with the doubt, hesitation and reservations of all the other representatives and guardians of the law.’
