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KL DERIVING ALT INTERPS (Contexts (family (dysfunctional family (Goneril,…

- - - - targeted political message to James I?
        
        better together
        
        don't rule selfishly and irresponsibly and don't listen to sycophants
        
        take care of the poor naked wretches (it's St Stephen's feast!)
      - don't bow to flattery
      - don't have wrath
    - - explore human emotional capacity? vale of soul-making; brightest opinions of the human animal
    - - absurdity
        
        gods cruel or nonexistant
      - we are responsible for our own actions.
        don't blame the gods etc.
- - - - Cordelia's nothing as spite? #
      - Edgar's decision not to reveal himself as a way of making his father suffer? (KR)
  - - - loyalty
      - :hearts:
    - - Goneril, Regan, Edm as neglected children
      - Lear as an abusive father
      - L bringing his children up to compete for :hearts:
  - - - Go and R show "masculine" qualities in assuming power and control over Albany/Lear / Gl etc.
      - A is a "feminine" char as he fails to take decisive, succesful action (in battle?)
      - all the sisters partake in the battle?
      - L mixes both: imperatives / hysterica passio!
        
        madness has been considered a female, self-destructive response to trauma by recent feminist critics.
    - - ruling the kingdom -- suggests women unfit to rule?
        Jac unlikely given recent stabmility of Elizabethan reign
      - harsh outdoors experience on the heath.
  - - - challenged here? reason in madness!
  - - - avoide accusations of heresy?
    - - nihilism and darkness...
      - we are responsible for our own actions