Themes
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- Created on: 05-06-14 14:24
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- Themes
- Nothingness
- Cordelia's "nothing, my Lord"
- Refusal to participate in love trial starts off chain of events
- Aristotle
- Refusal to participate in love trial starts off chain of events
- Edmund's "nothing, my Lord"
- Pretends his fake letter is "nothing" knowing Gloucester will demand to see it - bait
- "Evil has been released into the atmosphere" Frank Kermode
- "Bastards are evil in renaissance drama" Susan Bruce
- Pretends his fake letter is "nothing" knowing Gloucester will demand to see it - bait
- Gloucester reduced to nothing causes him to understand
- "Edgar I nothing am"
- Cordelia and Kent are exiled, implying they mean nothing to Lear but remain loyal (same with Gloucester/Edgar)
- Nothing can save all the characters
- Cordelia's "nothing, my Lord"
- Sight/Blindness
- Metaphor to see potential consequences before taking actions
- "see better Lear"
- Gloucester's blindness is a revelation
- "I stumbled when i saw"
- "Gloucester has to undergo intense suffering before he can identify with the deprived" Jonathan Dollimore
- "I stumbled when i saw"
- Fathers
- G = physical blindness mirrors L= spiritual blindness - blind to disloyal children
- Lear is reunited with Cordelia and able to see but it is too late - previous blindness set of events
- Kent, Fool, Cordelia and Edgar allow Lear to see
- Lear is a candle (light/life of kingdom) once he burns, everyone associated with him must too
- "out went the candle and we were left darkling"
- Lear refuses to cry
- Eyes fail him as he cries on Cordelia's return and her death
- "howl, howl, howl"
- "best object"
- Sees Cordelia's value
- Eyes fail him as he cries on Cordelia's return and her death
- Metaphor to see potential consequences before taking actions
- Nothingness
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