he came. Mozart.” The minute he realized that his service to God and the poor wasn’t gaining him the glory he craved so deeply, his heart became murderous. Soon the moral and respectable Salieri shows himself capable of greater evil than the immoral, vulgar Mozart. While the Mozart of Amadeus is irreligious, it is Salieri the devout who ends up in a much greater state of alienation from God, just like in Jesus’s parable. This mind-set can be present in more subtle form than it was in the life of