This is my second time reading Measure for Measure and I was
hoping that my feelings for this play would have changed. Sadly, that isn't the
case. I find myself comparing my reactions between the first time I read the
play and this time.
Angelo has found new ways to make my skin crawl, which I
didn't think was possible. It's one thing to be a sleaze ball who wants to jump
any girl that breathes, but it's another to be a sleaze ball who wants to sleep
with your sister who wants to be a nun. Really Angelo, are you that afraid of
any kind of commitment that you have to keep your sister away from convent
life? In the beginning, I thought that
Angelo would redeem himself later in the play, which he sort of does, but not
enough to change the initial impression I have of him. I guess once a sleaze
ball, always a sleaze ball.
This time around, I was really hoping that it has been long
enough since my first reading for my subconscious to have forgotten anything
and everything about this play that I could look at it from the clean slate
perspective. I guess it was as disturbed by such a prevalent character as I
was.
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