Measure for Measure

The Following dialogue is spoken by Duke Vicentio in Shakespeares government none for Measure, Act 3, scene 1. Duke Vicentio makes Lord Angelo the attracter of Vienna temporarily and pretends to perish exactly instead dresses as a mendi understructuret to ob answer the goings in his absence. Angelo is uncompromising, moralistic, and unwavering in his decision-making he decides that there is too often freedom in Vienna and takes it upon himself to free the city of brothels and immoral sexual activity. Claudio is arrested for impregnating Juliet, his lover, ahead they were married. Claudio is sentenced to death in order to serve as an example to the other Viennese citizens.Vienna already has strict rules against these unlawful activities. But the rules were not being followed strictly. It is consecutive that whoever enforces these rules will obviously become less-traveled with the public. thence the Duke cleverly arranges Angelo to do this enforcement. Hence he tells Fria r Thomas, We have strict statutes and most biting laws. The needful bits and curbs to willful weeds,Which for this nineteen years we have let slipHe refer to oergrown lion in a cave which is very a reference to himself. The words handle lion, prey are epochal here as they denote the peak measure the Duke has in his attend. The punishment tending(p) by Angelo is already in the mind of the Duke. But fearing unpopularity he makes the latter the scapegoat and achieves his objective.The Duke refers to terror, which is a little much that what Angelo is capable of. In the spare-time activity transportation, For terror, not to use, in time the rod Becomes more(prenominal) mockd than feard so our decrees, Dead to infliction, to themselves are d.o.a. And liberty plucks justice by the prise the baby beats the nurse, and quite sideways Goes every decorum, one can understand that the Duke has accessed his townspeoples situation thoroughly. In spite of knowing all this, what woul d have made the Duke pretend to leave Vienna under the care of Angelo in the first place? The next head word would be why Angelo. This particular passage answers these questions.The Duke is a clever man who knows his moves precisely. He uses Angelo because he is strict and a Moralist. He has judged Angelos credential well rich to know that this man would bring slaughter by over stressing on following the rules. The Duke expected an uproar in the town and in the opportune moment he would come and release those in Angelos captivation. This way the Duke plans to enforce the rule and at the same time not excite into the bad books of his subject. As per his plan everything off-key out well and he gained popularity by releasing Claudio. He as well as utilise the women to heighten the seriousness of the situation.The passage is also significant in showing the persuasiveness of feeling of the Duke about evaluator prevalent in his town. It is an indication that he whitethorn take t o deception or either other means to make Justice prevail. This passage forms the essence of the attitude of the Duke.