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- 1Madness1) King Lear shows signs from the beginning – he is impulsive and irrational asking his daughters to confirm their love, dividing his kingdom, banishing Cordelia, and attempting to hit Kent
2) “His wits begin t’unsettle”
3) Lear is depicted as a child with his quick change in temper, but also by his reference to "crawls" and "kind nursery" - he is vulnerable like a child - 2Madness4) "He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love or a whore's oath" - Calls Goneril a wolf, a boy's love is the 'love' of Edmund
5) Lear uses lots of repetition when mad E.g. "now", "Kill"
6) Regan - "You should be ruled and led by some discretion that discerns your state better than yourself” - 3Madness7) "Pull of my boots" - taking off his clothes is a symbol for his madness overtaking both during the storm and when with Edgar and a blinded Gloucester
8) "The King grows mad; I'll tell thee, friend, I am almost mad myself" – Gloucester
9) Fool asks, "tell me where a madman be a gentleman or a yeoman?" - Lear replies, "A king, a king" is a madman. - 4Madness10) Gloucester: "The King is mad"
11) Comparison of Lear’s mental state to the storm? Turbulent - “One minded like the weather”
12) “Ever since thou madest thy daughters thy mothers. For when thou gavest them the rod, and put’st down thine own breeches” - 5Disorder and conflict1) Nature is a metaphor of the overarching theme of disorder
2) "Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters"
3) "'Fie, foh and fum, I smell the blood of a British man” – Lear - Connotations to Jack and the Beanstalk – foreshadows chaos to come
4) Shouts and interrupts himself, demonstrating an inner conflict. "O, are you free? Some other time for that" - 6Natural and the unnatural1) "Dry up her organs of increase"
2) "I hold you but a subject of this war" - Albany putting Edmund back in his place
"Half-blooded fellow" - Edmund isn’t entirely human because he is a bastard.
Kent: "the bastard son of Gloucester" - just when Edmund thinks he has made it he is reduced back to his birthed position - 7Natural and the unnatural3) "Nature, art my goddess” – personified
4) “Lusty stealth of nature” – The lust of his father – he was made from nature, and it due to nature that he craves a higher status
5) “I grow I prosper”- flower, linking himself with nature
6) "Some good I mean to do, despite of mine own nature" - blames his evil characterization on his nature - 8Natural and the unnaturalLear uses nature as a force for evil - "You fen-sucked fogs, drawn by the powerful sun to fall and blister!"
Nature is a metaphor of the overarching theme of disorder
7) "Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters"
8) "Loyal and natural boy" - Edmund is finally considered natural in society. Edgar is called the "unnatural" one
9) Edmund is now viewed as a "natural" as a result of his unnatural deeds - "natures of such deep trust we shall much need” - 9Gender1) "Know thou this, that men are as the time is"
2) "I would rather lose the battle than that sister should loosen him and me" (Regan) - portrayed badly – obsessed with a man during war
3) Down from the waist they are centaurs, though woman all above" - Lear's reflection on women - 10Gender4) "Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell"
5) "Art now ashamed to look upon this beard?"
6) Regan: "Dispose of them, of me, the walls is thine" - Strips herself of all possessions – would rather be in love than have her kingdom.
7) Albany: "Proper deformity shows not in the fiend so horrid as in woman" - 11Gender8) "How'er thou art a fiend, a woman's shape doth shield thee" - her womanly shape is what disguises her male attitude
9) Goneril is a woman trying to be a man – upsetting the hierarchy. As Goneril becomes more manly she also becomes more awful - 12Gender (Cordelia)10) "An ample tear trilled down her delicate cheek. It seemed she was a queen over her passion, who, most rebel-like, sought to be king o'er her" - what got her in trouble in the fist place
11) Describes Cordelia with "sunshine", "happy smiles", "ripe lip", "pearls from diamonds dropped" - contrasts with descriptions of Goneril and Regan
12) Idealizes Cordelia again - "her voice was ever soft, gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman." - one final dig at Goneril
13) Comparison of deaths – Goneril and Regan die through poison and suicide, which are seen as undignified deaths. It is the men who die in fights, suggesting that women don’t deserve a proper death - 13Politics1) "The oldest hath borne most; we that are young shall never see so much, not live so long”
2) Edmund - "for my state stands on me to defend, not to debate" - fall of the gerontocracy
3) Edgar: "Pray that the right may thrive"
4) "King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta'en" - no longer alone. Had lost from the start
5) "Art now ashamed to look upon this beard?"
6) "So white, and such a traitor"- "White" is symbolic of his innocence, but also demonstrates the gerontocracy - Outrageous insult – she is a woman and younger – she is supposed to be inferior by gender and age - 14Politics7) "These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin will quicken and accuse thee"
8) "The youngest rises when the old doth fall" - Edmund, Goneril and Regan rise in power at the expense of their parents' faith
9) "Ha! Goneril with a white beard?"- Goneril literally took the hairs of Gloucester's beard - taking on the role of the gerontocracy
10) Cordelia refers to Lear as "Royal Lord", "Majesty" / Kent - "Our master, Lear"
11) Kent is rather rude though -"thou" / "old man" - "Thou" was the pronoun used to address close friends and children. "You" was the polite, respectful form. Kent refers to Lear as "thou" which is seen as a sign of disrespect - 15Politics12) “Who put my man I'the stocks?" – first time he see's his authority being undermined Lear's only reaction to this as first is to laugh - "Ha?” – question mark
13) Tricolon device - "They durst not do't: They could not, would not do't - 'tis worse than murder". Trying to get some control and reassurance. His man has been made a fool of, making a fool of him.
14) Oswald is most for the new order, but repeats old order values "duty" and "honor" - 16Godss
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