King Lear

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"Gloucester gains full insight just as he is blinded"
William Hazlit
1 of 53
"His blindness to everything that produces all misfortune"
Robert Heisman
2 of 53
"Bringing them face to face with the moral consequence of violence"
Edmund King
3 of 53
"aims to confrnt the problematic nature of consuming violence as entertainment"
Edmund King
4 of 53
"The play explores deep anxieties about female power"
Carol Rutter
5 of 53
"Lears daughters will not be silenced"
Carol Rutter
6 of 53
"Lear himself is made to seem womanish"
Carol Rutter
7 of 53
"Lears tears of impotent rage are indeed the sign of the female"
Carol Rutter
8 of 53
"The daughters do not weep or curse. They do not need to"
Carol Rutter
9 of 53
"Overwhelming sense of injustice breaks through"
Fintan o'Toole
10 of 53
"The storm is either too loud or too surrealistic"
Dennis Kennedy
11 of 53
"now we can hardly think of a production that doesn't use the blinding of Gloucester as one of its central images"
Dennis Kennedy
12 of 53
"The storm scenes have wreaked havoc with the play"
Dennis Kennedy
13 of 53
"Even giving his kingdom away is a selfish act"
Frank Kermode
14 of 53
"The voices of the good are distorted by pain"
Frank Kermode
15 of 53
"suffering can reduce humanity to a besital condition"
Frank Kermode
16 of 53
"Suffering is the consquence of the human tendancy to evil"
Frank Kermode
17 of 53
(Gloucester) "His murmurings about the state of the world reflect the mood of the play"
Frank Kermode
18 of 53
"Lear can already be seen as imperious and selfish"
Frank Kermode
19 of 53
"Cordelia is defeated by the genuineness of her love"
Frank Kermode
20 of 53
"Edgar's killing of Edmund has all the signs that it is the end of the play"
Fintan o'Toole
21 of 53
KL "shows the morality falling apart under the stress of the play's traumatic events and emotions"
Fintan O'Toole
22 of 53
"The traditional morality of loyalty, of knowing one's place and keeping it, is not longer of much use"
Fintan O'Toole
23 of 53
"Plays took place in a culture of normalised violence"
Edmund King
24 of 53
Glouscester "tries to find meaning in the random and cruel events"
Emma Smith
25 of 53
"Cordelia's death denies the necessity of a just natural order"
Paul Shipack
26 of 53
Cordelia "adopts the role of a female nurturer"
Lydia Onett
27 of 53
"Lear is blind to the possibility of conflicting judgements|"
Warren Taylor
28 of 53
"Lear presumes that, by their very nature, fathers love children and children reverence their fathers|"
Warren Taylor
29 of 53
"He rejects the love of cordelia and Kent"
Frank Kermode
30 of 53
"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are"
Machiavelle
31 of 53
"The growing stigma attaching to bastardy seems to coincide with illigitmacy"
Nicholas Crawford
32 of 53
"The ******* has an intimate relationship with the audience"
Nicholas Crawford
33 of 53
"Bastardy suggests a feeling of loss"
Nicholas Crawford
34 of 53
Agnorisis
realisation moment
35 of 53
bathos and pathos
sympathy
36 of 53
catharsis
feels the way the character does
37 of 53
hamartia
fatal flaw
38 of 53
lears hamartia
pride and myopia
39 of 53
Gloucesters hamartia
myopia
40 of 53
cordelia's hamartia
honesty
41 of 53
sisters hamartia
greed
42 of 53
hubris
excessive pride
43 of 53
act 1
exposition
44 of 53
act 2
rising action
45 of 53
act 3
climax
46 of 53
act 4
falling action: hope, even more tragic
47 of 53
act 5
denouement
48 of 53
"The protagnonists rail at the gods wondering why they have allowed this to happen"
Emma Smith
49 of 53
King Lear "has often been criticsied for failing to distribute any kind of moral justice in the holocaust of its concluding scenes"
Emma Smith
50 of 53
"Cordelia's death is more striking"
Emma Smith
51 of 53
"The death of Cordelia works to destabilise any ideas about tragedy and justice"
Emma Smith
52 of 53
the characters "They are their own tragic theorists"
Emma Smith
53 of 53

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"His blindness to everything that produces all misfortune"

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Robert Heisman

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"Bringing them face to face with the moral consequence of violence"

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"aims to confrnt the problematic nature of consuming violence as entertainment"

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"The play explores deep anxieties about female power"

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