William Shakespeares Measure for Measure Essay -- Shakespeare measure

William Shakespeares Measure for MeasureThe desires of the characters in Shakespeares Measure For Measure are not entirely clear, and are make ambivalent and ambiguous by the use of their language. Particularly in 3.1.52-153, when Isabella visits Claudio in prison, ambiguous lines and puns make it unclear whether Isabella desires Claudios death and whether he blazecerely yours desires to be free of sin. These desires were further convoluted by viewing the flowing Folger Theatre production of the play. Trade (151) is one pun which illuminates ideas virtually Claudios desires. interpreted to incriminate an exchange, Isabella insinuates that Claudios sin and death are like the title of the play, a measure taken for a measure, or rather a penalisation that fits the crime. However, Freuds notion of the compulsion to repeat is evoked when the word is taken to mean a habit. Isabella insinuates Claudios perpetual sinning earlier when she comments that Claudios freedom would offend Angelo notwithstanding (99) by continuing his behavior. The concept of the death drive as a desire to return to the womb as swell up emerges when Isabella warns Claudio that accepting Angelos offer Would speak your honour from that trunk you bear / And leave you naked (70-71), the image of debarking a tree becoming a form of regression. Claudios response that he would find oneself darkness as a bride / And hug it in his arms (82-3) is only ambivalent and ambiguous. It could be a straightforward admission to his desire for death, also showing that he readily accepts his punishment. Additionally falling under Freuds philosophy, it could sooner be an admission of his compulsion to repeat he would make whop to death as his bride, just as he did to Juli... ... truly became activated during his 15 line speech about the uncertainty of death. He was spotlighted during this passage, making it more like a soliloquy and therefore more honest. The auditory sens e was privy to his real fear of death and his desire to live, but then(prenominal) his pathetic supplication on his knees make my desire for him to die increase. What sin he refers to is of course unclear in the text as well as in the production, and literally holding that line above the characters heads made it scour more uncertain who was truly the sinner Claudio, Angelo, or Isabella? The interview was left feeling uncertain just as Claudio is about death, and Isabella is about her feelings towards whether her brother should die. Mostly this scene illuminates the universal desire for certainty, made even more apparent from the lighting change during Claudios soliloquy.