Violence in King Lear
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- Created on: 10-04-17 11:28
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- Violence in King Lear
- Not all instances of violenc are through physical violence
- Characters often attempt to harm one another with words
- Goneril & Regan constantly undermining Lear's authority
- "Till night...and all night too!" - Regan
- Regan allows for her father's slave to be in the stocks all night
- "that thou hast power to shake my manhood" - Lear
- "Till night...and all night too!" - Regan
- Goneril & Regan constantly undermining Lear's authority
- Lear disowns Cordelia & Kent
- "Here i disclaim all my parental care" -Lear to Cordelia
- "Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions, the moment is thy death" - Lear threatens Kent
- "Here i disclaim all my parental care" -Lear to Cordelia
- Lear curses Goneril at her castle
- "Dry up in her organs" - Lear
- Characters often attempt to harm one another with words
- Physical violence is a reaccuring theme throughout King Lear
- Glouster's eyes are gouged out
- "Pluck out his eyes" -Goneril
- Cordelia is hung
- "To hang Cordelia in the prison" - Edmund
- Edmund dies in combat
- "The wheel has come full circle" - Edmund
- Goneril poisons Regan
- "and her sister is by her poisoned" - Gentleman
- Glouster's eyes are gouged out
- Many characters are seen attempting to hurt themselves- this can be to gain power or a result of hopelessness
- Gloucester attempts to kill himself as a result of the physical violence he has endured, and for the guilt of disowning Edgar
- "Away, and let me die" - Gloucester
- Goneril kills herself for the guilt she feels for poisoning her sister and the hopelessness of her situation
- "The one the other poison'd for my sake, and after slew herself"- Edmund
- Gloucester attempts to kill himself as a result of the physical violence he has endured, and for the guilt of disowning Edgar
- Environmental violence is showcased through the storm in which Lear finds himself.
- "but yet i call you servile ministers, that have with two pernicious daughters join'd" - King Lear
- The storm parallels with the violence of Lear's daughters - believes nature and his daughters have joined forces
- Environmental violence is showcased through the storm in which Lear finds himself.
- "but yet i call you servile ministers, that have with two pernicious daughters join'd" - King Lear
- The storm parallels with the violence of Lear's daughters - believes nature and his daughters have joined forces
- The storm parallels with the violence of Lear's daughters - believes nature and his daughters have joined forces
- "but yet i call you servile ministers, that have with two pernicious daughters join'd" - King Lear
- Environmental violence is showcased through the storm in which Lear finds himself.
- The storm parallels with the violence of Lear's daughters - believes nature and his daughters have joined forces
- "but yet i call you servile ministers, that have with two pernicious daughters join'd" - King Lear
- Critics
- "savage and shocking" - Joseph Warton
- Not all instances of violenc are through physical violence
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