The relationship between vices and Justice in Lear
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- Relationship between vice and justice in Lear
- Define a vice: Someone's flaw or folly
- Examples of vices in Lear: Pride, ignorance, Blindness, Greed, Loyalty
- Lear's vices cause the WHOLE tragedy
- King Lear is a play that confuses morality with foolishness as well as mingles insanity with wisdom.
- Define Justice: Balance of order and retribution
- Examples of justice: Edmund being killed by Edgar, the deaths of the bad characters, Lear's whole journey?
- Does the punishment match the severity of the act?
- Is the ending the balance of justice? CORDELIA
- Poetic justice (Edgar, Gloucester and Edmund)
- Glouctester mistreats Edmund so Edmund betrays him/ Edgar remains loyal and becomes King/ Edmund betrays Edgar and Edgar kills him
- Poetic justice (Edgar, Gloucester and Edmund)
- Examples of justice: Edmund being killed by Edgar, the deaths of the bad characters, Lear's whole journey?
- The vices of characters cause the imbalance of justice in the play and the deaths of these characters= restoration of justice
- An unforgiving divine force
- LEAR THINKING HE CAN CONTROL IT AO2
- An unforgiving divine force
- "Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,And show the heavens more just"
- The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices. Make instruments to plague us.
- As flies to wanton boys are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.
- All friends shall tasteThe wages of their virtue and all foesThe cup of their deservings.
- "a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man"
- "I stumbled when I saw"
- The sweet and bitter fool
- Define a vice: Someone's flaw or folly
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