Analyze the way in which the resolution of brother menechaemus attempts to domesticate disturbing questions raised by the Play

The Father has more of a direct effect on the narrative when he encounters Menaechmus II, who, annoyed with the confusion resulting from the mistaken identities and the haranguing of the Wife, pretends he is crazy. The Father decides he must procure the Doctor to help his son-in-law: “A violent and severe disease! . . . The gods preserve us from the like. See now, how strong he was a moment since, and now is mad with sudden access [sic] of disease” (92). Coupled with his son-in-law’s theft of the dress, the madness means that Menaechmus II is no longer fit for society. Scholar Eleanor Winsor Leach explains, “[The Father’s] support of his son-in-law’s follies is contingent on the young man’s observance of certain rules. Adultery is tolerable, but not the theft of the matron’s palla . . . If Menaechmus is insane, he is upsetting the social balance, and the old man readily consigns him to literal captivity.”