Lear a level mind map
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- LEAR
- context
- 1600s
- Inheritance issues
- Primogeniture - !st born inherits
- four humours - Lear too Choleric
- James I witch hunts
- James I bible - devine right of kings strong
- Renaissance
- Social commentary from different time - french invasion too close so deleted
- religion
- Past reformations
- astrology and pagan gods
- Shakespeare
- Edmund is Machiavellian (Iago and Richard iii) deception betrayal sexual misconduct
- neither can be enjoyed if both remain alive
- fool and cordelia played by same actor
- no sound effects or lighting so storm created in description
- he stood there in the dark
- torches
- Edmund is Machiavellian (Iago and Richard iii) deception betrayal sexual misconduct
- Performances
- Banned in George iv - madness of monarch
- In some Edgar and Cordelia live and rule - less tragic and despairing
- poor fool hanged - some lear kills him, some cornwalls men. some he just dissapears
- Tragedy
- freytag's pyramid
- chorus
- tragedy and comedy all in one event - so Shakespeare has to encorperate humour
- euripedies aristotle antigone senecaa
- moral and catharsis
- 1600s
- themes/motifs
- nothing
- nothing my lord
- nothing, nothing will come of nothing, speak again
- nothing, i know no news
- edgar nothing i am
- eyes
- beweep this cause again ill pluck ye out
- i have no way therefore want no eyes
- out vile jelly
- theres not a nose among 20 who can smell he who stinks
- when the mad lead the blind
- letters
- speedy dispatch of that letter into your pocket
- madness
- o beat at thy gates that let thy folly in and thy judgement out
- be Kent unmannerly when Lear is mad
- strange times when madmen lead the blind
- let me not be mad
- how full of change his age is
- justice
- i am a man more sinned against than sinning
- learned justicer
- fortune/fate
- fortune that arrant whore that ne'er turns the key to the poor
- as flies to wanton boys - they kill us for their sport
- these recent eclipses of the sun and moon can portend us no good
- appearance vs reality
- Edgar nothing i am
- milky gentleness
- betrayal
- the hedge sparrow...
- some villain hath done me wrong
- how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child
- Untitled
- nothing
- plot
- ACT 1
- SC 1
- 1)Gloucester, Kent, Edmund foil.
- "Whoreson"
- " by order of law"
- 2) love test + banishment
- "unburdened crawl towards death"
- "more than words can wield the matter"
- " only she comes too short"
- "dearer than eyesight"
- "Be Kent unmannerly when Lear is mad"
- "she is herself a dowry"
- 3) sisters plot
- "you see how full of changes his age is"
- "we shall think further of it"
- 1)Gloucester, Kent, Edmund foil.
- SC2/3
- 1)Edmund ******* soliloquy
- "why *******? Wherefore base?"
- "shall top the Legitimate...now gods, stand up for Bastards!"
- 2) Emund fakes letter
- " i know no news... nothing my lord"
- "terrible dispatch of it into your pocket"
- "he cannot be such a monster"
- 3) Gloucester + stars
- "these late eclipses in the sun and moon can portend us no good"
- "son against father... father against child"
- 4) Edmund foppery soliloquy+ tricks Edgar
- "this excellent foppery of the world...we make guilty of our disasters the stars, sun and moon"
- "some villain hath done me wrong"
- 5) Lear rude at Gonerils
- "by day and night he wrongs me"
- "put on what weary negligence you please"
- 1)Edmund ******* soliloquy
- SC4
- 1) Kent is Kaius
- 2) Fool truth
- 3) Goneril Lear to leave to Regan's. Albany uneasy.
- 4) Oswald letter to Regan
- SC5
- 1) Kent letter to Regan
- 2) Fool truth
- 3) realises wronged Cordelia. mad at Goneril
- SC 1
- ACT 2
- SC1
- 1) Gloucester's - C+R expected. Edmund plots. War between C+A
- 2) Edmund tricks Edgar - C,R+ Gl mad. Mock fight
- 3) Edgar flees. Edmund fakes wound. Gl plans to execute Edgar
- 4) C+R arrive. Edgar linked to Lear's knights by R. she got Go letter.
- 5) Edmund promises to serve Cornwall
- SC2
- 1) Kent + Oswald fight
- 2) Edmund splits fight. Kent insults all.
- 3) Kent in stocks. Gloucester uneasy
- 4) Kent reveals letter from C to audience
- SC3
- 1) Edgar proclaimed criminal - hides
- 2) Disguise as Tom o' Bedlam
- SC4
- 1) L arrives dosen't believe R+C put K in stocks
- 2) R+C are "sick". Lear is mad
- 3) C+R arrive, say L should accept age. Admit to punishing K. R snaps at L for cursing G.
- 4) G arrives. R says less - no Knights.
- 5) Lear threatens daughters. Goes out in storm
- 6) Gl concerned. R asks Gl to lock Lear out.
- SC1
- ACT 3
- ACT 4
- ACT 5
- ACT 1
- characters
- Lear
- Kent/Kaius
- see better lear
- be kent unmannerly when lear is mad?
- my life i never held but as a pawn
- i have a journey sir shortly to go my master call i must not say no
- his countenance like me not
- i have seen better faces in my time
- Cordelia
- France
- she is herself a dowry
- what says cordelia?
- i cannot heave my heart into my mouth
- i will love according to our bond
- a third more opulent than your sister's
- hold your hand in bennediction over me
- my poor fool is hanged
- so young yet so untender
- Lear
- Kent/Kaius
- see better lear
- be kent unmannerly when lear is mad?
- my life i never held but as a pawn
- i have a journey sir shortly to go my master call i must not say no
- his countenance like me not
- i have seen better faces in my time
- Cordelia
- France
- she is herself a dowry
- what says cordelia?
- i cannot heave my heart into my mouth
- i will love according to our bond
- a third more opulent than your sister's
- hold your hand in bennediction over me
- my poor fool is hanged
- so young yet so untender
- as pearls from diamonds dropped. in brief, sorrow would be a rarity most beloved if all could so become it
- i know you what you are... sister i am most loathe to call your faults as they are named ... love well our father
- France
- Goneril
- Albany
- cowish terror of his spirit
- how far your eyes pierce i cannot tell, striving to better, oft we mar what's well
- monsters of the deep
- Oswald
- put on what weary negligence you will
- put on what weary negligence you will
- by day and night he wrongs me
- tigers for daughters
- into her womb cast sterility
- see how full of change his age is
- milky gentleness
- Albany
- cowish terror of his spirit
- how far your eyes pierce i cannot tell, striving to better, oft we mar what's well
- monsters of the deep
- Albany
- thine and albany's issues
- all licenced fool
- why 100, why 10 , why 5
- Albany
- Regan
- Cornwall
- out vile jelly
- out vile jelly
- puck out his eyes
- only she comes too short
- shut up your doors to him
- Cornwall
- Gloucester
- Edgar
- learned thesbian
- o i have taken too little care over this
- if edgar lives , bless him
- foul villain, thou cannot be such a monster
- if the continue they shall mar my counterfeiting
- we shall speak what we feel not what we ought to say
- some villain hath done me wrong
- Edmund
- edmund the base shall top the legitimate ... gods stand up for *******s
- Nothing my lord.. i know no news
- neither can be enjoyed if both remain alive
- excellent foppery of the world
- whyfore base?
- loyal and natural boy
- over lusty at the legs
- i have no way and therefore i want no eyes
- if edgar lives bless him
- these recent eclipses of the sun and moon can portend us no good
- villain...how can thou be such a monster
- speedy dispatch of that letter into your pocket
- loyal and natural boy
- Edgar
- on thy life kent ... no more
- reveal our darker purpose
- nothing? nothing will come of nothing, speak again
- beat at thy gates that let thy folly in and thy judgement out
- o you are men of stones ...heavens vault might crack... howl howl
- my poor fool is hanged
- i have taken too little care over this
- do not come between a drangon and its wrath
- i am a man more sinned against than sinning
- beweep this cause again and ill pluck ye out
- The Fool
- the hedge sparrow fed the cuckoo so long it had its head bit off by it's young
- take my coxcomb
- fortune that arrant whore that ne'er turns the key to the poor
- thou should not have been old till thou was wise
- none can smell he who stinks
- all licenced fool
- my poor fool is hanged
- thou hast given away your crown
- when you see a huge wheel rolling down a hill, you shouldnt try to hold onto it or itll break your neck
- i know when one is dead
- o i have done her wrong
- Goneril
- Oswald
- by day and night he wrongs me
- tigers for daughters
- into her womb cast sterility
- see how full of change his age is
- milky gentleness
- thine and albany's issues
- all licenced fool
- why 100, why 10 , why 5
- Oswald
- Goneril
- Kent/Kaius
- Lear
- as pearls from diamonds dropped. in brief, sorrow would be a rarity most beloved if all could so become it
- i know you what you are... sister i am most loathe to call your faults as they are named ... love well our father
- France
- Regan
- Cornwall
- puck out his eyes
- only she comes too short
- shut up your doors to him
- Cornwall
- Gloucester
- Edgar
- learned thesbian
- o i have taken too little care over this
- if edgar lives , bless him
- foul villain, thou cannot be such a monster
- if the continue they shall mar my counterfeiting
- we shall speak what we feel not what we ought to say
- some villain hath done me wrong
- Edmund
- edmund the base shall top the legitimate ... gods stand up for *******s
- Nothing my lord.. i know no news
- neither can be enjoyed if both remain alive
- excellent foppery of the world
- whyfore base?
- loyal and natural boy
- over lusty at the legs
- i have no way and therefore i want no eyes
- if edgar lives bless him
- these recent eclipses of the sun and moon can portend us no good
- villain...how can thou be such a monster
- speedy dispatch of that letter into your pocket
- loyal and natural boy
- Edgar
- on thy life kent ... no more
- reveal our darker purpose
- nothing? nothing will come of nothing, speak again
- beat at thy gates that let thy folly in and thy judgement out
- o you are men of stones ...heavens vault might crack... howl howl
- my poor fool is hanged
- i have taken too little care over this
- do not come between a drangon and its wrath
- i am a man more sinned against than sinning
- beweep this cause again and ill pluck ye out
- The Fool
- the hedge sparrow fed the cuckoo so long it had its head bit off by it's young
- take my coxcomb
- fortune that arrant whore that ne'er turns the key to the poor
- thou should not have been old till thou was wise
- none can smell he who stinks
- all licenced fool
- my poor fool is hanged
- thou hast given away your crown
- when you see a huge wheel rolling down a hill, you shouldnt try to hold onto it or itll break your neck
- i know when one is dead
- o i have done her wrong
- Kent/Kaius
- Lear
- AO2
- Dramatic irony
- mostly used to highlight myopia
- we know Edgar is good and Edmund is tricking - Gloucester's myopia
- we know kent is kius - lear's myopia
- mostly used to highlight myopia
- Sub plot/ Foil
- Gloucester reaches anagnorisis first
- if Edgar lives -bless him
- " you have some cause - they do not
- Gloucester reaches anagnorisis first
- letters - espionage and misunderstanding
- attonement - letter leads to events
- Plots against monarchs discovered by letters - gunpowder plot
- Romeo and juliet - misscomunication and dramatic ironyleads to their deaths
- Staging
- On stage / off stage deaths
- entrance of lear - as a king or as a father - no crown and no fanfare or large procession
- Gloucester's fall can provoke confusion or sadness or laughter depending on played
- Lear beating his head / taking off clothes
- lear and cordelia often in white in final scene
- disguises of Kent and Edgar loss of identity
- setting
- Lear is kept outside of Gloucester's castle - representative of perepeteia
- hovel and storm convey disorder
- Battlefields convey violence and death and climax/conflict
- Dramatic irony
- tragic conventions
- Hamartia
- Fatal flaw/ error of judgement
- LEAR - dividing kingdom
- LEAR/GLOUCESTER- believing the wrong child
- CORDELIA/FOOL/KENT - being the truth tellers
- Fatal flaw/ error of judgement
- Peripeteia
- Reversal of fortune
- LEAR - dividing kingdom = no pwr
- LEAR- removal of knights
- LEAR- Kent put in the stocks
- LEAR - going mad/ into the storm
- LEAR - death of cordelia
- GLOUCESTER- blinding, suicide, tricked, death
- CORDELIA - no dowry/banished
- DEATH??!
- Reversal of fortune
- Hubris
- Excessive pride or lack of insight/ ignorance due to arrogance
- LEAR - rejecting title and expecting treatment
- EDMUND - entitlement to inheritance as 2nd born
- REGAN/GONERIL - believing Lear won't chastise/betray them. loving Edmund.
- Excessive pride or lack of insight/ ignorance due to arrogance
- Myopia
- Blindness
- LEAR - ignoring Kent+ Cordelia+ Fool
- LEAR- failing to see true Regan + Goneril
- LEAR - fails to empathise with G+R+C
- GLOUCESTER - bling to own sons true nature.
- GLOUCESTER - physically blinded by R+ Co
- Blindness
- Anagnorisis
- moment of tragic recognition
- LEAR- feeling sorry for fool/tom/poor
- LEAR- causing Cordelia's anger
- LEAR - admitting madness
- GLOUCESTER- realising Edmund's plot
- GLOUCUSTER - not needing eyes to see.
- moment of tragic recognition
- Megalopsychia
- High status who possesses a greatness of soul
- LEAR/GLOUCESTER - king/earl, patriarch, divine right of kings
- KENT/EDGAR- disguise true status. moral greatness
- High status who possesses a greatness of soul
- Catharsis
- emotional release / moral renewal
- KENT - following Lear to grave
- ALBANY+ EDGAR - left living in the end
- OLD GEN- death of L, K, Gl = purge of old
- IMMORAL- death of Edmund, R, Cor, Go, L, Gl, Os, = purge?
- CORDELIA- ultimate sacrifice for growth? good character as a casualty of tragic action
- emotional release / moral renewal
- Hamartia
- exam
- PAPER 1 - TRAGEDY
- 2 HOURS 30 MINS
- 45 MINS EXTRACT Q
- 45 MINS OPINION CHOICE Q
- 45 MINS KEATS+ DOAS
- Untitled
- 2 HOURS 30 MINS
- PAPER 1 - TRAGEDY
- context
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