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The politics in King Lear are still relevant today as marginalized groups…

- - - - Lear has just been told by his daughters that his knights can no longer stay with him
        
        Monarchy=power and knights play an important role with power
        
        His daughters are essentially taking away what he has left of power and he grows angry
        
        Relates them to a disease/plague-sore (unnatural/uneasy)
        
        disease = deviant
        
        Women having power is unnatural and deviant
        
        By describing his daughters (who are now powerful) as a disease shows his inability to accept women who have more power than him
        
        He decides to insult them
    - - The LGBT community has been viewed as criminal, villain, or otherwise deserving of social ostracism, infamy, shame, and condemnation.
        
        Lear describes his daughters as a disease and LGBT individuals are thought to plague society
        
        Being homosexual, bi or trans is seen as a disease
        
        Both women in Lear and LGBT in society are seen as deviant and unnatural through description
        
        Currently, LGBT people face the hardships being an outcast of society and social institutions
        
        Still see lack of acceptance and visibility for these stigmatized groups
      - Heterosexuality is still viewed as the normative in society
        
        Homosexuality is viewed as the deviant sexual orientation
        
        Hateful and derogatory language has been used to describe the "deviant" orientation
        
        Example (social ostracism, infamy, shame, and condemnation)
        
        If heterosexuality is viewed as normal than those of other sexualities are viewed as deviant or not "normal"
- - - - Goneril reduces Lear's knights (only power he had left after dividing kingdom)
        
        "Shaking [his] manhood."
        
        Without the power and authority he once had over the kingdom and his family (women) he feels as if his masculinity has been stripped of him
        
        Feels women should not have more power and "take it away" from him
        
        Sensitive about the issue and becomes extremely defensive
        
        Idea men are typically the rulers of power however, Goneril and Reagan disrupt this
        
        He feels that his masculinity proves his power and worthiness (so femininity must mean the opposite)
  - - - Jordi Estivill explains that "social exclusion can be understood as a collection of processes that joins successive elements that come from the heart of economics, politics and society, gradually distances and places, people, groups, communities and territories in a position of inferiority in relation to prevailing values "(Estivill 2003).
        
        Both women and LGBT people are described in a manner that places them in an inferior position
        
        Marginalized groups facing a lack of recognition as community members (the way Lear describes and treats women)
        
        Belief that both women and LGBT are inferior to men and heteros
        
        Men/Heteros almost always have more power than those of the LGBT community and women
        
        Described as deviant when women hold more power and when the LGBT community express their sexuality
        
        Widely considered bad, immature, sick, and inferior to heterosexuality.
      - Social exclusion is initiated by the core elements of society, politics, and economics.
        
        Isolated by prevailing values (initiates inferiority)
        
        LGBT people not recognize as complete members in communities
        
        Feeds the idea of being an outlier
        
        When focusing on power, homosexuality is devalued and considered inferior to heterosexuality