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Analyse the Dramatic Device used in Act III Scene 1 in order to explore Claudio's ambiguous feelings about death. How significant is the idea of ambiguity in terms of the audience's understanding of the rest of the play? Measure for Measure can be seen as a problem play because it brings up a problem and then challenges the audience to come up with an answer: not necessarily right or wrong. The play is centred on law and that law is actually based on personal interpretation. In a bid to see if Angelo is capable of handling the city of Vienna, the Duke hands over his power to him and instead of "leaving town" he disguises himself as a friar to secretly watch Angelo. Angelo in a bid to rid Vienna of all sexual immorality, sentences a man called Claudio to death for having sexual intercourse and impregnating his fiancé. Isabella his sister...

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