The Fool, Act 1, Scene 4
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- The Fool, Act 1, Scene 4
- AO1
- Both his presence and absence are significant as they reflect Lear's progressive insanity
- Fool appears after Lear has done the damage of dividing Kingdom
- Perhaps he's a figment of his imagination, the result of Lear's fragmented state of mind
- Lear's personality is fragmented
- Lear is the id, he operates on a pleasure basis
- impulsive and responds to instincts
- id demands immediate satisfaction and if denied this then tends to experience pain
- Operates on the pleasure principle
- The fool is the ego, he operates with the external world
- Ego operates on the reality principle
- Kent could be the super ego
- incorporates the values and morals of society
- his function is to control the id's impulses which society forbids
- Lear is the id, he operates on a pleasure basis
- Fool appears after Lear has done the damage of dividing Kingdom
- function of the fool includes chorus, humor and reflection of personality
- Both his presence and absence are significant as they reflect Lear's progressive insanity
- AO2
- "thou hast pared thy wit o'both sides, and left nothing i'the'middle"
- very wise
- the semantics of this leave little ambiguity
- he criticizes Lear's choice
- the semantics of this leave little ambiguity
- maybe shows how he is the half of the brain that Lear has given up
- very wise
- Lots of physiological references
- mainly to the head
- questions Lear's sanity
- mainly to the head
- makes Lear repeat nothing comes of nothing
- "Can you make no use of nothing, Nuncle?"
- pause makes it more moking
- use of "Nuncle"
- shows how they have got a close knit relationship enough for the fool to mock Lear
- But Shakespeare may be using it to show their proximity, like nuncle like fool
- use of "Nuncle"
- Nothing as a theme, the fool foreshadows what Lear will have
- His first scene and he shows his wisdom and importance
- pause makes it more moking
- "Can you make no use of nothing, Nuncle?"
- Fool speaks in prose not in verse, this may show how down to earth the fool is
- the fool isn't as fancy
- may show class
- below the king despite demonstrating how he is above the king in knowledge
- may show class
- the fool isn't as fancy
- act 1, scene 4 also shows the fool as a choral function by providing commentary on the action and events that occurring
- "if i gave them all my living, I'd keep my coxcomb myself"
- "thou hast pared thy wit o'both sides, and left nothing i'the'middle"
- AO3
- "The improbabilities of Lear surely surpass those of any other tragedy in both number and grossness"
- A.C Bradley
- "'Lear's intellectual error of anger receives the conventional punishment of madness"
- W.R Elton
- "For Lear belief is sanity and its loss in insanity"
- W.R Elton
- "[King Lear} is a heap of jewels unpolished and unstrung"
- Nahum Tate
- "Lear is choleric, overbearing and almost childish from age"
- Shlegel
- "The improbabilities of Lear surely surpass those of any other tragedy in both number and grossness"
- AO1
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