King Lear Tragedy

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Mind Map on King Lear Tragedy, created by chilli.mole on 21/05/2013.
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King Lear Tragedy
  1. 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"
    2. Senican Tragedy elemnents
      1. Use of stock characters; a faithful male servant
        1. Greek mythology - blood and lust
      2. Elizabethan Tradegy
        1. Became unique to Elizabethan tragedy - most horrors are executed off stage and reported by a messenger - Gloucester's blinding
        2. Chronicle/ Morality Play
          1. Catharisis - the process of releasing compressed feeling or purging
            1. Peripeteia
              1. A reversal of fortune/ a change in circumstances
              2. Agnorisis
                1. A moment when the character sees more clearly than before/ a critical discovery
                2. A Chorus
                  1. A group of characters that commented on the action (Horatio in Hamelt) Possibly Kent, but he is involved in action
                  2. Hubris
                    1. Excessive pride and brought to doom. Think they are better than the Gods
                    2. Pathos
                      1. A quality that evokes pity or sadness
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