THE DUKE Flashcards
Bloom - motivations
Shakespeare does not bother to provide the Duke with any motivations’
Allan
‘constantly uses other people…as a means of self-knowledge’ through them he gains an understanding of himself
Wilson
Machiavellian power-monger who moves unseen and all-seeing among his people in order to better dominate them
Ao3 ; The Prince: Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532
Bloom - oration
'’to dismiss the Duke’s oration is hardly possible; it moves with a grandeur that enhances its nihilism, with a sonority that is eternal . ‘’
-its stance is epicurean, it displays the egoistic hedonism of the duke
Knight
‘The Duke’s sense of human responsibility is delightful; he is like a kindly father, and all the rest are his children’
Donellan
‘We hate others because we hate ourselves. Applied to Angelo this might suggest that he punishes Claudio so harshly because he recognises and despises the same feeling within himself’
Brown
Brown ‘led by a vicvarous pleasure/ sexualy charged motivations below the consiousnes
Wheeler
– dukes fear of sexuality ‘channeled into a generalized death wish’
Tendency for self destruction/that of others
A05 – Thanatos, as introduced by Freud, represents an unconscious drive toward death, destruction, and a return to an inorganic state,
death drive as abdicates from personal responsiblityy. Self desertion of the state, and uses further destruction as means of control
Schumann
Duke ‘appropriates the sacrament of penance’
led by a ‘voyersitic curiosity’
‘voyeuristically fishing for sexual details
from women under the guise of confession and penitential instruction’