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05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
What do we think about the Duke's decsion to spare Angelo, although he has been shown to have used his psotion of power to blackmail Isabella into sleeping with him? Today we don't hang execute people for this offence but we do not let them go unpunished either. Both Isabella his intended victim and Marianna plead for mercy for Angelo and this is what changes the Duke's mind. But we do not now allow the views of the abused or the concerns of the abusers family to stand in the way of the law. And even the Duke may have had second thoughts, as we see him earlier in the play worried that his laxness in enforcing the law has only encouraged further vice.<br><br>Isn't this the one of the main points where the play speaks to our modern concerns and shouldn't this have been brought out in the review?