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Story Time
In *Measure for Measure*, justice is tested against mercy. A young man hopes to be **exonerated** of a **felony**, but the Duke’s deputies demand harshness, charging him with an **exorbitant** penalty. The courtroom wears a noble **facade** of fairness, yet corruption seeps beneath. The Duke, disguised, listens to testimonies and tries to **gauge** the truth through disguise and delay, knowing only time will reveal the balance between law and grace.
Elsewhere in *Hamlet*, the prince seeks not lawyers but **forensics** of the soul. He studies a smile for deceit, a **frown** for guilt, **extrapolating** from every gesture the proof of betrayal. He rails at his mother’s weakness, mocks Polonius’s **foibles**, and burns with scorn for Claudius. The ghost’s command, **forbidden** by reason yet sanctioned by vengeance, drives him forward. Like a senate locked in **filibuster**, the court stalls, but Hamlet’s passion threatens to **galvanize** rebellion.
In *King Lear*, the clown speaks truths with startling **felicity**, using wit to pierce madness. But Lear himself falters, blinded by vanity, falling prey to false promises. His story recalls **Fredo** of another age, loyal in blood but weak in resolve, undone by choice. In Shakespeare’s stage, weakness, greed, and betrayal rarely escape judgment: whether in crowns or cloisters, men cannot hide their sins behind facades forever.
Elsewhere in *Hamlet*, the prince seeks not lawyers but **forensics** of the soul. He studies a smile for deceit, a **frown** for guilt, **extrapolating** from every gesture the proof of betrayal. He rails at his mother’s weakness, mocks Polonius’s **foibles**, and burns with scorn for Claudius. The ghost’s command, **forbidden** by reason yet sanctioned by vengeance, drives him forward. Like a senate locked in **filibuster**, the court stalls, but Hamlet’s passion threatens to **galvanize** rebellion.
In *King Lear*, the clown speaks truths with startling **felicity**, using wit to pierce madness. But Lear himself falters, blinded by vanity, falling prey to false promises. His story recalls **Fredo** of another age, loyal in blood but weak in resolve, undone by choice. In Shakespeare’s stage, weakness, greed, and betrayal rarely escape judgment: whether in crowns or cloisters, men cannot hide their sins behind facades forever.