Answer each of these questions in well structured essays of less than 1000 words. Due Deans Date Question #1 Embraceable Ewe Professor Singer’s student, Romeo, read his teacher’s celebrated article in Nerve.com. He is buoyed by his Professor Singer’s utilitarian argument because he has fallen in love with Juliet and wants to marry her. Juliet is a sheep, a charming, eligible ewe. Romeo proposes and Juliet says “Baa”. They are denied a marriage license by the state of New Jersey, and Romeo is stigmatized by narrow minded “speciesists” at Ivy Club, who celebrate the engagement with a dinner party featuring rack of lamb.

“As I read on I discovered that the fellow made no use of mind, and assigned to it no causality for the order of the world, but adduced causes like air and ether and water and many other absurdi- ties . . . That is why one person surrounds the earth with a vortex, and so keeps it in place by means of the heavens, and another props it up on a pedestal of air, as though it were a wide platter”.

Like human life itself, Measure for Measure is a very serious comedy. Like the Bible, Measure for Measure is a comedy of cosmic proportions. Taken together, the Old and New Testaments comprise the only other comedy of comparable seriousness, and Shakespeare’s play, although less detailed, is far more compact and economical. Measure for Measure and the Bible are paradoxically self explanatory; both works reflexively talk about themselves and their shared hidden meanings.