King Lear - Act 1 + 2 - Power
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- Created on: 11-01-18 14:56
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- Power
- Context
- Men expected to be strong and not emotional
- King is not supposed to be told what to do
- Kent represented the king, putting him stocks = mocking and disrespecting king
- Lear gave up the land and crown so lost authority and power, but fails to recognise this
- Characters
- The Fool
- Goneril
- Regan
- Lear
- Kent
- Act 2
- " You should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your state /Better than you yourself"
- "You shall do small respect, show too bold malice / Against the grace and person of my master, stocking his messenger"
- "What need you five and twenty? ten? five? To follow in a house where twice as many Have command to tend to you?"
- Act 1
- "e'er since thou mad'st thydaughters thy mothers. For when thou gav'st them the rod, and put'st down thine own breeches"
- "Daughters who can make you obey them."
- By her that else will take the thing she begs/A little to disquantity your train
- "This milky gentleness and course of yours"
- "Meantime we shall express our darker purpose"
- "Who is it that can tell me who I am?"
- "I am ashamed thou hast power to shake my manhood"
- "Who is it that can tell me who I am?"
- "e'er since thou mad'st thydaughters thy mothers. For when thou gav'st them the rod, and put'st down thine own breeches"
- Context
- Females ruling unheard of
- Albany weaker than Goneril
- Context
- Men expected to be strong and not emotional
- King is not supposed to be told what to do
- Kent represented the king, putting him stocks = mocking and disrespecting king
- Lear gave up the land and crown so lost authority and power, but fails to recognise this
- Context
- Albany weaker than Goneril
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