King Lear Tragedy

Harmatia - a fatal flaw in the character: Lear's blindness
1. Aristotle said a person "who is not eminently good or just, yet whose fortune is brought about by some error or frailty"
Senican Tragedy elemnents
1. Use of stock characters; a faithful male servant
  1. Greek mythology - blood and lust
Elizabethan Tradegy
1. Became unique to Elizabethan tragedy - most horrors are executed off stage and reported by a messenger - Gloucester's blinding
Chronicle/ Morality Play
Catharisis - the process of releasing compressed feeling or purging
Peripeteia
1. A reversal of fortune/ a change in circumstances
Agnorisis
1. A moment when the character sees more clearly than before/ a critical discovery
A Chorus
1. A group of characters that commented on the action (Horatio in Hamelt) Possibly Kent, but he is involved in action
Hubris
1. Excessive pride and brought to doom. Think they are better than the Gods
Pathos
1. A quality that evokes pity or sadness

Resource summary

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