Analysis of Acts V-VI of Measure for MeasureOne of the things that struck me as strange in Act V, Scene I is the way Mariana looks recognize the Duke in disguise. I don't know if this means that the Duke has disguised himself as a friar in the past. Another thing that struck me as strange in this scene is how quickly Mariana agrees to the Duke's plan. Here is a stranger (Isabella) who convinces a young woman (Mariana) to have sex under very mysterious circumstances with a man who has rejected her. The plan is very strange but Mariana agrees so quickly that it is difficult to understand how it was possible for Isabella to give Mariana all the explanations of the reasons for the ruse. The Duke tries to justify the whole plan once again by saying that Angelo is Mariana's husband with a "pre-contract". In Act IV, Scene II I found it ironic that if Pompey becomes an executioner and stops being a pimp and a prisoner, he will. improve oneself and become honorable. I also found it ironic that the Duke, Isabella and Mariana are conspiring and deceiving Angelo but Angelo, in turn, deceives the three by bringing forward the date of Claudio's execution. It's like pretty much everyone in the play is backstabbing someone else. It also seems like the Duke is hatching all these plans to do "the right thing." First he has a plan to put Mariana in Isabella's place to sleep with Angelo and now he plans to have someone else beheaded to fool Angelo into thinking it is Claudio's head. It seems to me that the Duke is behaving as immorally as the rest of the city and Angelo. He seems to believe that the ends justify the means. Is he really better than Angelo? After first reading in Act IV, Scene III, how the Duke lies to Isabella when he tells her that Claudio has been executed, I couldn't help but think about how cruel the Duke is and how he could get his role of friar too distant. I also thought that he would rather make others suffer needlessly to make sure that his plan to "get" Angelo is successful. Act IV, Scene IV simply reiterates the fact of how selfish Angelo is. While he expresses regret for having executed Claudio, he still justifies his decision by saying that if Claudio had lived he might have sought revenge against Angelo..