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Character Analysis of Angelo in Regard to Genre
The comedy Measure for Measure is a play in which a leading political power tries to chastise the city of Vienna for its alleged overabundance of illegitimate sexual behavior. The ruler Angelo, who has assumed temporary jurisdiction over the city, has the goal of single handedly extracting all promiscuity not only out of the city, but out of the primal desires of the human libido. In the course of trying to execute his plan, he discovers that his own lust and promiscuity begin to intensify beyond his control, which not only makes him a hypocrite, but perhaps a tragic hero as well.
When first introduced to Angelo, he seems like a noble and loyal follower of the law. He is given provisional rule of Vienna solely due to his great moral character and virtue. His jurisprudential qualities are illuminated when he states in Act II, scene 1 “We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it......

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