Importance of the Friars in Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Meas

grandeur of the Friars in Much Ado well-nigh Nothing and mensuration for MeasureIn the plays Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure, the friars ar important instruments in their respective storyline because of their assumed pure attentiveions of using conjuring trick as a means to right the wrong-doing within the play. They engage the means to administer questionable plans of action because they are respected and trusted. The friars expose all of the confessions therefore, they could know even the deepest of secrets. The friars, or Fathers take on a protective role, a paternal one. They seem to relate more with the youth, or the wronged, who become like children needing guidance in their vulnerable states. When the parents, or as in Measure for Measure, Angelo, must be contradicted, the next highest up in the chain of command is the friar. The friars assume these authoritative roles with great conviction. They seem to mean that they must protect their sheep and figh t evil. Friar Francis of Much Ado About Nothing believes himself to serve as a means for justice, Craft against infirmity I must repay (3.1.57). In a different nation of justice, within different scales of measurement, the Friars offer their non-doctrinal mode of deception to set the serviceman (of the play) in harmony. In Much Ado About Nothing, Friar Francis suggests a peculiar solution to am oddment a horrible situation in which the bride was shamed and jilted. Friar Francis seemed to be the only male who pulled for Heros honor. He believed her when her paternity did non and vied for her innocence when he said, Trust not my age, / My reverence, calling, nor divinity/ If this fragrance lady lie not guiltless here/ Under about biting error (4.1.166-9). He advised that she prete... ...acilitators when they are the only characters whose authority never is questioned. Only they can pull off the deceptive schemes that they do because no one else in the play either can be truste d, or is not in a position of power as the friars are. Friar Francis and Friar Lodowick are not despised in the end because their religious positions allow for them to be trusted in making a just and right decision. The friars restored order. Within the system of justice in which the friars function it is not only just, but necessary, to sin by lying and deceiving, in order for love and harmony to prevail. It then becomes a question of not whether these holy men abuse Christian dogma, but on their intent behind the deceit. Thus craft against vice is the powerful system which allows for deviation concerning sin in order to combat the havoc caused by deception by evil intent.