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King Lear context - Coggle Diagram
King Lear context
James I
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king lear fixated on royal succession as it spoke to a nation fear of foreign rule or the outbreak of civil war after Elizabeth II died having no children
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religion
suicide was condemned by the church and those who committed suicide were believed to go straight to hell
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children were property of parents and commanded to respect the,
chain of being
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god existed at the top, angels, men, women, animals
women seen as below men so elizabeths ascension to the throne would have been seen as disrupting the chain of being
women
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king Lears women defy the role of women in shakespearean time and possess powerful positions - cordelia defies traditions for personal belief
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Sindey's Arcadia
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blind king with two sons, one of whom goes against the king, and when the blind king finds out he wishes to throw himself off a cliff
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