critics on justice

Question 1

What does Schlegel say is the play’s central message?

Answer 1

‘the sense of the whole is properly the triumph of mercy over strict justice’

Question 2

What does Patsy Hall say about the system of Justice?

Answer 2

We are meant to question a system of justice which sentences to death the faithful Claudio for generating life while allowing leniency to a degenerate like Pompey if he’ll commit judicial murder.’