Justice Critics Flashcards
What does Paul Cheetham say about Justice and mercy?
‘Justice without mercy has been found to be unworkable, but the application of justice seasoned by mercy will not. result in a return to moral anarchy.’
What does John Mullan say about punishment in the play
Everyone receives punishment in some way in the play
What does Schlegel say is the play’s central message?
‘the sense of the whole is properly the triumph of mercy over strict justice’
what does Wasson say on Aristotelian Justice?
‘For it will be remembered that Aristotle distinguished two types of incontinent man: the type like Angelo who chooses what is right but cannot follow his own advice; and the excitable type, who “ does not deliberate at all” . Claudio is this excitable type.’
Magedanz on the unity of private and public justice?
‘The Duke engineers the final judgment scene to unite public and private, and specifically to expose Angelo’s hypocrisy as a civil authority while eliciting Isabella’s personal sense of compassion. The climax comes in the Duke’s dramatic condemnation of Angelo:’
What does Patsy Hall say about the system of Justice?
‘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.’
What does Brendan Jackson say about Justice and Mercy?
‘Although Justice and Mercy have been served, duplicity has been required from the forces of good as well as the forces of evil.’
What does Fiona Dunlop say about Claudio’s punishment?
‘Because of the necessity to arouse terror in the spectating public, the punishment may be disproportionate to the crime.’
Lord Acton
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
