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King Lear things to remember
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- 1What to use instead of arrogance?Hubris/Pride
- 2Example of ecphonesis and what it revealsGloucester: O cruel! O you Gods!
Edgar: World world, O world
Lear: O me, my heart!
Vehement display of sorrow/pain etc
Audio cue showing great despair - 3Signal of Lear's fall as KingHe drops royal pronouns: I am a fond, foolish old man
- 4A03Delany: The play asserts the power
of redemption - 5BruceKing Lear begins as it ends, with a fragile
world - 6Nahum TateRewrote King Lear in 1681 because he thought the end was to empty and gloomy
- 7A02...
- 8Loss of power (shadow)L: Does any here __ me? Where are__?
F: Lear's __
Questions = show uncertainty, contrasts Lear's use of imperative 'Speak again' etc - 9DecietGoneril: I love your majesty more than words can wield the matter, dearer than eyesight, space and liberty
Regan: I profess myself an enemy to all other joys and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness' love
Hyperbole: Her words are empty-dressed up - 10AntithesisEmphasis of contrast through the use of parallel structures
L: so young and so untender
c: so young my lord and true
Powerfully expresses conflict through its use of opposites - 11AvowalIt is an honest admission. To avowal is to acknowledge or claim something - usually publicly.
Gloucester's frank avowal that he is his farther - 12Why is Edmund angry?His father spoke of his birth with a degrading levity
- 13What should you discuss when looking at unseen poetryTitle, tone, theme, and structure
- 14The first person is...Confessional, and it draws the reader in
- 15AnecdotalThe beginning of the Wife of Bath's tale is anecdotal
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