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⚫Intended to draw audience into the play


⚫Character figures out excuses made for immoral acts as play goes on

AS NARRATOR

"It is perverse! To start a play with kings and cardinals in speaking costumes and intellectuald with EMBROIDERED MOUTHS with me"

AS PUBLICAN

"(Promptly) No sir"


Playing up to corruption

AS MATTHEW

"Oh, when I can't touch the bottom I'll go deaf, blind and dumb"


Nautical imagery, instability

AS JAILER

"Better a live rat than a dead lion"


Claims that life, no matter how immoral, is better than death