THE DUKE

Question 1

Bloom - motivations

Answer 1

Shakespeare does not bother to provide the Duke with any motivations’

Question 2

Allan

Answer 2

‘constantly uses other people…as a means of self-knowledge’ through them he gains an understanding of himself

Question 3

Wilson

Answer 3

Machiavellian power-monger who moves unseen and all-seeing among his people in order to better dominate them

Ao3 ; The Prince: Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532

Question 4

Bloom - oration

Answer 4

'’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

Question 5

Knight

Answer 5

‘The Duke’s sense of human responsibility is delightful; he is like a kindly father, and all the rest are his children’

Question 6

Donellan

Answer 6

‘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’