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Essay Archive - The play "Amadeus" is Mainly Concerned With the Destructive Nature of Jealousy
The play "Amadeus" is Mainly Concerned With the Destructive Nature of Jealousy
This passage is all too true, both in Peter Shaffer's ‘Amadeus' and in life in
general. However the play is also concerned with the destructive nature of
ignorance and naivety. Salieri is jealous not just of Mozart's talent, but of
the fact that God gave the talent to “Mozart … spiteful, sniggering, conceited,
infantine Mozart”. He is envious of the vessel of God's laughter at the ‘patron
saint of mediocrity' as he had dubbed himself. Not only did Go....
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