Lear Critics 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureKing LearA2/A-levelOCR Created by: lucyellisCreated on: 14-06-16 15:54 "a trickle of sanity running through the play" Orwell on the Fool 1 of 26 "The chief function of the fool is to remind Lear of his folly" Rehman 2 of 26 Cordelia "refuses to play the court game of speaking effusive, flattering language2 Bate 3 of 26 "Lear himself divides his kingdom for a greedy reason" Bonnet 4 of 26 "Wisdom through madness is the play's twinned key moral provocations" Cunningham 5 of 26 The storm itself is "not dramatically important, only it's effect on Lear" Barker 6 of 26 "Lear gains access to his wisdom when he loses his power" Cantor 7 of 26 "Only when Lear exposes himself to what wretches feel can he grow morally" Pechter 8 of 26 "The suffering in tragedy is...a means" Heilman 9 of 26 "Madness is both punishment and insight" Byrd 10 of 26 "The gravity of Gloucester's punishment illustrates a world without justice" Leggatt 11 of 26 "Absent mother" Kahn 12 of 26 Feudalism and Individualism as "tearing the universe apart" Delaney 13 of 26 Animal Imagery "The lower creatures and man's likeness to them" Brown 14 of 26 "Women in power is always a disgrace" Kaiter 15 of 26 "A world in which the Gods are cruel, or silent, or non - existent" Leggatt 16 of 26 "The political has no place for the moral" Ryan 17 of 26 "The family is the place of the most intense emotions" Barsy 18 of 26 Kent is a "useful touchstone against which to test all the characters" Schneider 19 of 26 "All order and authority seems to have collapsed" McEvoy 20 of 26 Edmund, Goneril and Reagan are "monsters in nature" Gildon 21 of 26 "Animal imagery shows the unnaturalness of the character's behaviour" Doncaster 22 of 26 "Lear unleashes a breakdown in the basic categories of father and daughter" Hanly 23 of 26 "Fall from the highest elevation to the deepest abyss of misery" Schlegal 24 of 26 "A man does not become a hero until he realises the root of his downfall2 Aristotle 25 of 26 "The play offers us no guaranteed moral vantage point" Goldberg 26 of 26
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