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1.1 :heavy_division_sign: of :flag-gb:; :hearts:-test banishments…
1.1
:heavy_division_sign: of :flag-gb:;
:hearts:-test
banishments
Gloucester's hamartia
degrading treatment of Edmund
in a way denies his parental care
his
breeding
, sir, hath been at my charge
there was
good sport
at his making
:arrow_right: Edm as victim?
sexually licentious
#
Edm was the product of his affair and leads to his downfall
Dramatic method
ceremony
Lear's throne-room
Lear and other royals process in with fanfare
symbols
map
give visual dimension to :heavy_division_sign: of :flag-gb:
in some productions, Lear tears the map into pieces :arrow_right: show the destructive nature of his division
parting of the coronet
destabilising of kingdom -- can't be worn in pieces
Lear draws his sword at Kent
Lear's hamartia
follows superficial words
thinks GoR's speeches show their love
thinks love can be measured
breaking morality of the :family:
encourages rivalry against his daughters --
has assigned best bit to Cordelia before hearing her speech
what can [Cordelia] say, to draw
a third more opulent
than your sister's?
disowns Cd
breaks morality of the :flag-gb:
breaks into parts, causing civil war
#
wants the superficial appearance, "name and all the addition", of being king, without the power or responsibility
denies his God-ordained responsibility
banishes his faithful and trustworthy servant K -- destabilising his own rule
wrath
#
cannibalistic imagery
objectification of Kent's body:
thy hated back/thy banished trunk
breaking of rhythm into short, barked commands
pride
compares self to dragon
Kent
choric function:
make L's faults obvious
power [bows] to flattery
thy youngest daughter does not love thee least, / Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness
devotion
Answer my life my judgement
hamartia himself - prone to wrath?
Lear is mad
What wouldst
thou
do,
old man
?
Lear's downfall
beginning: high
#
many imperatives
Cordelia
bastion of truth and honour
K (choric):
to plainness honor's bound, when majesty stoops to folly
references to love and duty
power of 3
spiteful?
uses language of calculation herself
making deliberate show through most unexpected answer --
nothing
villains
Goneril
tends to speak first, present ideas,
vent her frustration openly
#
to Cd:
you well are worth teh want that you have wanted
Regan
cunning and manipulative
#
takes advantage of Goneril's turn in the love test
my sister ... names my very deed of love; ONly she comes too short
brief, non-committal responses to Go.
therefore favoured by L
cf.
Goneril, our eldest born
&
our
dearest
Regan
psychol reading: both victims of parental conditioning; inherited elements of father's behaviour
both have hyperbolic responses to :hearts: test, full of "more" and superlatives :arrow_right: they aren't genuine
alterantive reading: they are victims of L's irrational and wrathful tendencies