Peter Shaffers Amadeus presents to the reader many human values. The most prominent being envy, deceit and self-sacrifice. During the course of the play these features are displayed through Salieris actions, emotions and dialogue.The relationship between Salieri and Mozart is like a painting, commencing with splattered envy after Mozarts extordinary musical talents disrupt Salieris clean, white, sanity. Splatters become blotches when Mozart uses Salieris prize pupil (33), Katherina Cavalieri, to fulfill his professional and sexual aspirations. Covered in thick, black 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 notion so sinful! (39). The paper then turns black as Salieris wanted fame (16) is enveloped by Mozarts egotistical and immature personality. As a piece of recycled paper, Salieri begins his murder at least not in life. In Art it was a different matter (35).The buildup of Salieris destructible envy is used to sculpt his evil character and ultimately lead to his master plans of deceit. But not all of Salieris deceit is put together into one action, it is portrayed through several evil schemes that end up composing the murder of Mozart. Salieri treats Mozart as a friendly individual from the start and even compliments about how his music at its best is truly charming (37) and what a remarkable memory (34) he has. This only tricks Mozart and allows for Salieri to proceed with his first step of deceit, sleeping with his lovely wife, Constanze. Although he never does in fact sleep with her, the mere fact that he had broken his vow of sexual virtue triggers his lust for deceit even more. Salieri trying to interfere with Mozarts opera, The Marriage of Figaro displays his second step of deceit. Upon hearing that Mozarts new opera conta...
