Measure For Measure Literary Analysis

In the play Measure For Measure by William Shakespeare many twist and turns are made to create the plot of the play. The play is a comical relief play meaning that the play will end in multiple marriages, and throughout the play there will be random places where the scene will bring back the attention of the people in the audience who were drinking alcohol beverages. The play has five major characters along with few other minor characters who develop the plot of the play as well.
The main characters of Measure For Measure are Lord Angelo, Duke Vincentio, Isabella, Claudio and Lucio. All five characters develop the plot but not fully, a few other characters such as Escalus, Provost, Friar Peter and Thomas, Elbow, Pompey, Mariana and Julietta. All of these characters create the twisted, plot of Measure For Measure. Without all of the characters the plot of the play would not be as interesting, the play would be short and non-eventful. The main characters all change towards the end of the play from being the good guy to the bad guy and vise versa, this is what helps develop the play's plot.
The plot of the play is twisted and very eventful. In the

beginning of the plot the characters are introduced, and the beginning of the problem develops, the duke is leaving and leaving Lord Angelo in charge of Vienna. The duke pretends to leave but really is undercover as a friar to see how Angelo will handle the power, Angelo's first problem comes when he finds out that Claudio got his fiance Julietta pregnant, it is against the law to get a women pregnant before marriage. Lord Angelo makes the decision of sentencing Claudio to death, Claudio asks Lucio to tell his sister Isabella to persuade Angelo to not sentence Claudio to death. As the plot rises things get more complicated, Isabella agrees to speak to Lord Angelo and Isabella does, Angelo asks her to come again the next day because he is lustful towards Isabella, but he cannot because if he does it is a sin; Isabella is becoming apart of the sisterhood and Angelo would be committing the same crime as Claudio, leading Angelo to be a hypocrite. At the climax of the play, the duke/friar finds out what Lord Angelo is up to and he comes up with a plan to punish Angelo and some comical relief is brought into this scene. The decline of the play is when Lord Angelo receives a letter from the duke and Angelo thinks that the duke is going to be mad. The duke's plan also goes into action to reveal that Angelo is a hypocrite and a bad guy, everyone then finds out that the friar is really the duke. The problem of the play was getting a women pregnant before marriage, this created the whole issue that created the plot.
At the end of the play the duke gets revealed by Lucio that he was also the friar who knew everything that was going on.

The play ended with four marriages, Lord Angelo married to Mariana, Lucio and the women who had his child, Claudio and Julietta, and Duke Vincentio who purposed to Isabella. No one is executed except for Barnardine because cutting off his head was apart of the duke's plan to expose Lord Angelo. The end of the play was the resolution was just clearing the problem up with marriages.
To conclude; the play Measure For Measure showed that the truth will be spoken eventually. Measure For Measure is also known as a dark comedy because in the comical relief it was about people being hanged or punished because of prostitution or being drunk. The play shows lust, love and justice throughout the play’s

plot.