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3.2 :thunder_cloud_and_rain: 1 (Lear (anagnorisis? (Lear is conscious of…
3.2
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Lear
wrath
turned at the elements and the world: wishes for destruction
a battle between Lear and elements
such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, such groans of roaring win and rain
elemtns as pathetic fallacy for his feelings
incomprehension
first hints of insanity? comparing elemeents to his subjects and children
anagnorisis?
Lear is conscious of his downfall of status
Here I stand your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man
yet not of his hamartia?
I am a man more sinned against than sinning
kindly speech to the Fool.
How dost, my boy? Art cold?
Term of endearment and caring about the Fool's physical comfort.
learning
fears divine/natural justice
closeness to the poor
our necessities ... can make vild tings precious
goes to a hovel to rest in straw -- like a :pig:
Fool/Kent
Lear is accompanied by and bonds to his servants without rank (Kent is disguised as a commoner "Caius").
Fool ends by prophecising a prophecy that will apparently be said by Merlin several centuries after KL. Paradox of time -- chaos.