Examine the ways in which Shakespeare uses language to give the audience a greater insight into Angelo's character The character of Angelo in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure is surely the most complex in the play. To convey the transition of principles in Angelo's character in the play, Shakespeare employs a range of language techniques. Using these techniques, Shakespeare allows the audience to gain a greater insight into Angelo's character and also allows the audience to …showed first 75 words of 1276 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1276 total…connotations and metaphors and allows Angelo's feelings to be portrayed by his use of puns and imagery. The different levels of meaning used allow the audience to gain a greater insight into Angelo's character. They also allow them to see the character for who he is; a cold, hard, but eventually human and emotional character, bewildered and confused after being trapped in the politics of office, finally wishing to 'give his sensual race the rein'.