{"id":185,"date":"2008-11-16T19:07:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T23:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/11\/16\/using-others\/"},"modified":"2008-11-16T19:07:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T23:07:01","slug":"using-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/11\/16\/using-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One motif of <em>Measure for Measure<\/em> shows itself when characters use other people, or ideas of people, to achieve goals.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples:<\/p>\n<p>Angelo uses the idea of himself as a strictly pious ruler to demand sex from Isabella.<\/p>\n<p>Claudio is willing to use Isabella to save his own life.<\/p>\n<p>The duke uses the image of a friar, a virtuous and trustworthy person, to spy on others.<\/p>\n<p>Isabella uses Mariana to save her virginity.<\/p>\n<p>The duke attempts to use Barnardine to save Claudio; he then uses a dead pirate instead.<\/p>\n<p>This motif ties in with the theme of the play, illustrated in the title.\u00a0 Obviously the characters are forced to <em>measure<\/em> the value of their own virginity, happiness, or social position in terms of each other.\u00a0 In addition, the characters are forced to <em>measure<\/em> each other.\u00a0 Shakespeare uses this tactic to explore how and why we judge others&#8217; actions and value certain people over others when it comes to achieving our personal goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One motif of Measure for Measure shows itself when characters use other people, or ideas of people, to achieve goals. Some examples: Angelo uses the idea of himself as a strictly pious ruler to demand sex from Isabella. Claudio is willing to use Isabella to save his own life. The duke uses the image of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/11\/16\/using-others\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using Others<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ball-group-four"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}