What are the Themes are explored in play The Cenci - Major themes- critical analysis of Cenci

                                              Themes of the play The Cenci



  

  • The Cenci is Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetic tragedy of the moral depravity that he believed tyranny fosters.
  • It treats Shelley's favorite theme:  the moral imagination as the faculty that awakens, through its capacity to emphasize with others sympathetic love, which defeats despotism.
  • In  this play, however, Shelly renounces his typical visionary idealism wherein love conquers unjust power.  Instead, he presents the realism as he sees it of a world in which victims of absolute power have no recourse to mitigating moral sympathies. 

  • The drama in blank verse, follows Elizabethan tragic form.


                                                                   Major Themes

      •   Reflect Shelley's Romantic ideals, and which are prevalent in his other literary works.  Critics have drawn parallels between the play's chief thematic concerns and those of Prometheus Unbound.
      • Themes of conflicts of good versus evil and humanity versus tyranny in the play.
      • In choosing to seek revenge however, Shelley's heroine employs evil for her own ends, taking on the characteristics of her tyrannical father.
      • A related theme in the play is that moral fortitude cannot be tarnished by the actions and ethical choices.                                                       

                                                             Analyzing of The Cenci
      • Critics have examined Beatrice as a tragic figure representing humanity suffering at the hands of  unjust authority underscoring another thematic current in the Cenci.
      • Evidence of Shelley's radical , anti-authorization ideals.
      • Poet's use of such taboo subjects as incest and parricide as an implicit attack on every form of patriarchal authority.
      • Through the play's religious undertones , Shelley revealed his views on the eccelesiastical  hierarchy Orsino, Cenci and the propensity of church to take bribes to absolve.

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