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Karten in diesem Stapel (6)
- 1KL A02 Gendercharacters who show conflict between masculinity and femininity. Goneril links breast feeding-Albany.
‘this mother swells up toward my heart!/Hysterica passio'-L implies he suffers from 'Hysterica passio'-thought to afflict women. Compares emotions to ailing woman -implies Lear not acting like a man,women have no control over their emotions.
'thou art a boil,A plague-sore'-Goneril name similar-gonnorhea- compared to veneral disease associates her disloyalty with the consequences of sexual promiscuity.
'Down from the waist they are Centaurs /There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit,Burning, scalding, stench, consumption'- waist down women dangerous -female anatomy-hell,'burning'-KL associates all women with unpleasant STD's
‘To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.' KL-all problems caused by women. - 2KL A02 Nature'with presented nakedness outface the winds and persecutions of the sky'
Nature reflects the mistakes of man in King Lear and when man stops to folly, the natural order is easily destroyed.
'Here i stand your slave a poor infirm weak' - 3KL A02 Theme: MadnessEdgar controlled by devil 'laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew; set ratsbane by his pillow'-the devil tempted him to commit suicide to damn his soul-knives ropes and poison.
Fool 'Thou shouldn't not be old till thou hadst wise'. - 4KL A02 Theme: Sight and blindnessGloucester 'A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine eyes'-black humour.
'Pluck out his eyes'-Goneril
'Old fond eyes..i'll pluck ye out-Lear refuses to cry during his descent to madness.
'Howl, howl, howl' 'Had i your tongue and eyes I'd use them so/That heaven's vault should crack'-his eyes fail him as he mourns Cordellia. - 5KL A02 Theme: Clothingdaughters. With his sanity restored he puts on fresh clothes and no longer needs his crown of poisonous-symbolic of his jarred senses
- 6KL A02 Theme: Nothingletter is fake 'Nothing my lord' copying Cordelia's reply in an ironic and alarming way. G also loses everything and learns to see more clearly.
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- Karteikarten am Ohne Titel, erstellt von Sophie Tilney am 29/05/2014.
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- Sophie Tilney
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