King Lear Critics 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureKing LearA2/A-levelOCR Created by: kirsty.smith98Created on: 11-05-16 18:58 Flemming on Lear's Change 'Lear does indeed change over the course of the play...' 1 of 17 Flemming on Lear's Change #2 '...he learns about the importance of true love about all else and realises the consequences of the terrible mistakes he has made.' 2 of 17 Tony Coult on Blindness/ Flawed Family Union Lear 'cannot understand that he has been anything but a perfect father' 3 of 17 Kathleen McKluskie on the presentation of Regan and Goneril/ Women in power 'Goneril and Regan are presented as demons, monsters, anything but human...Women in power can only bring disgrace" 4 of 17 Hal Halbrook on Lear's personality 'Boisterous, demanding, arrogant' 5 of 17 Sun about Lear 'Under his clothes, the king is equal to a beggar' 6 of 17 Edward Dowden on Lear's suffering 'King Lear is the greatest sufferer in Shakespeares play's' 7 of 17 Stanley of Lear 'The real fool is Lear himself' 8 of 17 Thorndike on Regan and Goneril 'Inhuman sisters' 9 of 17 A.C. Bradley on Edmund illegitimacy 'Edmund's illegitimacy...influences our feelings... it separates him from other men' 10 of 17 Rob Worrall on Gloucester 'Gloucester spends most of the play learning from his mistakes' 11 of 17 Mark Schwehn on Edgar's disguise Mark Schwehn on Edgar's disguise 'Edgar's disguise both conceals him and reveals him' 12 of 17 Sean Lowe on the Fool's purpous 'The full purpous of the Fool is to stress Lear's poor judgement' 13 of 17 Karen Kay on the theme of Nature 'the theme of nature is used to illustrate the ferocity and disruption of order' 14 of 17 Sarah Doncaster on animal imagery 'the theme of nature is used to illustrate the ferocity and disruption of order' 15 of 17 Cunningham on Blindness and Madness Gloucester finds 'insight through blindness' and Lear finds 'wisdom through madness' 16 of 17 Emma Smith 'a Christian play about a Pagan world' 17 of 17
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