measure religion Flashcards
Knight
The Duke’s sense of human responsibility is delightful; he is like a kindly father, and all the rest are his children’
Bloom
the play is reduced to like for like’, as shakespeare ‘chose not to forgo (refrain from) his hidden blasmpemy of the sermon on the mount’
Bloom - Christian morals
‘simultaneous invocation and evasion of Christian belief and Christian morals.
Bloom - nihilism
‘the masterpiece of nihilism / fundamentally alienated from Christian morality and Classical ethics’
Smith
“self-conscious, self-protected righteousness”
Bloom - mocks how
christain scholars have interpreation ‘In which the dubious Duke is Christ, amiable Lucio is the Devil, and the sublimely neurotic Isabella is the human soul , the bride of christ’
Marx
her righteous malice that now, like Angelo’s, would condemn her brother to death’
