Cordelia
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- Cordelia
- Why does she ruin her relationship with Lear?
- Disagrees with the patriarchy within society and Chain of Being
- She should obey her father - admirable but unnatural
- "Women are commanded to be subject to men by the laws of nature" John Knox
- She should obey her father - admirable but unnatural
- "Cordelia establishes herself as a model of sensible virtue" Martin Old
- France sees the goodness within her - "she is herself a dowry"
- Disagrees with the patriarchy within society and Chain of Being
- "Nothing"
- More powerful than her sister's words
- "She seizes on the fact that the true sense of love implies something which is impossible to conceive of" Terrence Hawkes
- "I cannot heave my heart into my mouth"
- "She seizes on the fact that the true sense of love implies something which is impossible to conceive of" Terrence Hawkes
- As play develops, we distrust characters who are clever with words (Goneril, Regan, Edmund)
- Cordelia is sincere even though she does not use exaggerated words
- "I cannot heave my heart into my mouth"
- Lear's anagnorisis allows him to hear the power of Cordelia's silence
- "Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman" pg 387
- Cordelia "pushes Lear towards the truth"
- More powerful than her sister's words
- She is pained to hear of Lear's suffering
- "ample tear trilled down Her delicate cheek" 318
- shows she is forgiving
- "No, sir, you must not kneel" pg 354
- Her death
- The selfless daughter - did she die for Lear?
- Her death gives reason for Lear to die
- "An expression of the playwright's tragic vision" Rebecca Warren
- Consequence of Lear's folly
- No poetic justice - good character dies
- But is she good?
- Why does she ruin her relationship with Lear?
- Lear's youngest and favourite daughter
- Cordelia
- Why does she ruin her relationship with Lear?
- Disagrees with the patriarchy within society and Chain of Being
- She should obey her father - admirable but unnatural
- "Women are commanded to be subject to men by the laws of nature" John Knox
- She should obey her father - admirable but unnatural
- "Cordelia establishes herself as a model of sensible virtue" Martin Old
- France sees the goodness within her - "she is herself a dowry"
- Disagrees with the patriarchy within society and Chain of Being
- "Nothing"
- More powerful than her sister's words
- "She seizes on the fact that the true sense of love implies something which is impossible to conceive of" Terrence Hawkes
- "She seizes on the fact that the true sense of love implies something which is impossible to conceive of" Terrence Hawkes
- As play develops, we distrust characters who are clever with words (Goneril, Regan, Edmund)
- Cordelia is sincere even though she does not use exaggerated words
- Lear's anagnorisis allows him to hear the power of Cordelia's silence
- "Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman" pg 387
- Cordelia "pushes Lear towards the truth"
- More powerful than her sister's words
- She is pained to hear of Lear's suffering
- "ample tear trilled down Her delicate cheek" 318
- shows she is forgiving
- "No, sir, you must not kneel" pg 354
- Her death
- The selfless daughter - did she die for Lear?
- Her death gives reason for Lear to die
- "An expression of the playwright's tragic vision" Rebecca Warren
- Consequence of Lear's folly
- No poetic justice - good character dies
- But is she good?
- Why does she ruin her relationship with Lear?
- "He always loved our sister most"
- Cordelia
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