Illustrate and Evaluate the Key Aspects of Angelo’s Character Revealed in Act I, Referring Both to His Own Words and to What Others Say About Him.
Illustrate and Evaluate the Key Aspects of Angelo’s Character Revealed in Act I, Referring Both to his Own Words and to what others say about Him.
Angelo is portrayed as a lifeless, emotionless man of power, who was inappropriately given an important role that many feel he should not have been given. He is depicted as unnecessarily strict but also untrained and unready for the role that he has been given, trying to gain a reputation as a firm leader but making himself hated along the way.
What is most evidently presented about Angelo is that he is a man, who is not ready for the power he has been given. Once he was offered the role, he replied “let there be some more test made of my metal”, looking to prove himself worthy of the role but was never given the opportunity to train and be taught how to rule. Not only does this comment have this superficial level that tells you that he has not been trained for the role but it also shows his own mentality as a man of power, who likes to believe in his own worth and who likes to affirm his manhood. The use of “metal”, shows that Angelo is attempting to liken himself to a hard, strong material that tries to present him as a man of dominance and power. This one statement works to foreshadow his attitudes throughout the rest of the scene, as discussed by others. These attitudes are especially interesting because the rest of the act relies on the words of others when creating an image of Angelo as a ruler. Since the people who talk are those being affected, there is a pattern of criticism and disapproval that does not look to understand why he has implemented the laws he has chosen to implement. For the audience, this means that Angelo is seen to make decisions without considering why he is making them and what he is doing with them, making him out to be a ruler, who unnecessarily creates laws, without understanding, because he is not yet ready to rule. However, this is admitted in the first scene when he asks for a
Angelo is portrayed as a lifeless, emotionless man of power, who was inappropriately given an important role that many feel he should not have been given. He is depicted as unnecessarily strict but also untrained and unready for the role that he has been given, trying to gain a reputation as a firm leader but making himself hated along the way.
What is most evidently presented about Angelo is that he is a man, who is not ready for the power he has been given. Once he was offered the role, he replied “let there be some more test made of my metal”, looking to prove himself worthy of the role but was never given the opportunity to train and be taught how to rule. Not only does this comment have this superficial level that tells you that he has not been trained for the role but it also shows his own mentality as a man of power, who likes to believe in his own worth and who likes to affirm his manhood. The use of “metal”, shows that Angelo is attempting to liken himself to a hard, strong material that tries to present him as a man of dominance and power. This one statement works to foreshadow his attitudes throughout the rest of the scene, as discussed by others. These attitudes are especially interesting because the rest of the act relies on the words of others when creating an image of Angelo as a ruler. Since the people who talk are those being affected, there is a pattern of criticism and disapproval that does not look to understand why he has implemented the laws he has chosen to implement. For the audience, this means that Angelo is seen to make decisions without considering why he is making them and what he is doing with them, making him out to be a ruler, who unnecessarily creates laws, without understanding, because he is not yet ready to rule. However, this is admitted in the first scene when he asks for a