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Is Salieri pure evil or is he a victim of fate?
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Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus presents to the reader many human values. The most important being envy, deceit and self-sacrifice. During the course of the play these features are displayed through Salieri’s actions, emotions and dialogue.
The relationship between Salieri and Mozart mainly involves envy after Mozart’s extordinary musical talents disrupt Salieri’s clean, white, sanity and Mozart uses Salieri’s prize pupil, Katherina Cavalieri, to fulfill his professional and sexual aspirations.
Covered in envy Salieri seeks lust to better himself than his opponent: “As I watched her walk away on the arm of the creature, I felt the lightning thought strike – ‘Have her! Her for Katherina’ … Abomination! … Never in my life had I entertained a
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