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This is a 5 page paper discussing the relationship between law and nature in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”. William Shakespeare’s play “Measure for Measure” examines the constantly shifting relationship between law and nature within the setting of Vienna. The law that no man must lay with a woman who is not his wife had long been established yet not enforced until Angelo the Lord Deputy decides to sentence Claudio, a young gentleman for impregnating his lover. Claudio shifts the relationships between nature and law, and natural law several times in his arguments to save his life. He sees man’s laws as flexible and man’s nature as virtuous. At the same time, Claudio views death and nature as lawless; which terrifies him. Angelo, on the other hand, has little sense of the natural lust and love which can occur in man and has little problem applying the law forbidding such encounters. After meeting Isabella however, Claudio’s virtuous sister, Angelo’s faith in the law alters as he readily breaks the law he is so willing to enforce on others. Isabella is virtuous and sees sinning as against natural law and devises ways in which she can save her virtue, condemn Angelo for his own lawlessness and sin while at the same time saving her brother.
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must lay with a woman who is not his wife had long been established yet not enforced until Angelo the Lord Deputy decides to sentence Claudio, a young gentleman for
impregnating his lover. Claudio shifts the relationships between nature and law, and natural law several times in his arguments to save his life. He sees mans laws as flexible and
mans nature as virtuous. At the same time, Claudio views death and nature as lawless; which terrifies him. Angelo, on the other hand, has little sense of the natural lust
and love which can occur in man and has little problem applying the law forbidding such encounters. After meeting Isabella however, Claudios virtuous sister, Angelos faith in the law alters
as he readily breaks the law he is so willing to enforce on others. Isabella is virtuous and sees sinning as against natural law and devises ways in which she
can save her virtue, condemn Angelo for his own lawlessness and sin while at the same time saving her brother. Shakespeares "Measure for
Measure" about the enactment of several laws which are supposedly the course of nature leads to a tale in which Claudio is meant to be made a martyr by Angelo
in enforcement of these laws. The laws in question are those which relate to a man being punished to death if he should lay with any woman who is not
his wife; considered against the natural course of a union. Claudio in this case has impregnated Juliet, although consented by Juliet, before they are married and Angelo decides to set
an example by sentencing Claudio to death. The law which had condemned Claudio has existed for a great length of time but was
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