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Mind Map by George Thomas, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by George Thomas
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King Lear and Oedipus Rex
- Sight/Blindness
- Gloucester Blinding - Physical and Mental
- Lear's Mental Blinding
- Oedipus Blinding - Physical and Mental
- Gloucester Blinding - Physical and Mental
- Father/Son Relationship
- Goneril and Regan are themslves compared to men on one occassion
- Oedipus kills Laius as part of the myth
- Goneril and Regan are themslves compared to men on one occassion
- Ingratitude?
- Tragic Protagonists
- Young vs Old
- Edmund the youth will rise
- Edmund the youth will rise
- The Insignificant/Significant
- Chorus in Oedipus
- Greek Device
- Greek Device
- Edmund as illegitimate becomes the most dangerous
- Creon by the end it seems will become most significant
- Prophecies/Oracles in Oedipus
- The superflouous, what you dont need, Lear learns this
- Albany dominated by Regan, can change sides without anyone noticing?
- Chorus in Oedipus
- Locations
- Lear in the storm on the heath Act 3 Scene 2
- Lear in the storm on the heath Act 3 Scene 2
- Truth vs. Lie
- Act 1 Scene 1, False Love
- Act 1 Scene 1, False Love
- Fate vs Free Will
- Governed by Fate, Lear and
Cordelia will die
- Governed by Fate, Lear and
Cordelia will die
- Divine Intervention
- Divine Right of Kings,
King is only answerable
to God alone
- The Great Chain of Being, power
invested in King by God, if exploited
leads to chaos
- Act 1 Scene 2, Edmund '...all that we are evil in
by a divine thrusting on'. We blame the Gods so
easily if anything goes wrong
- Divine Right of Kings,
King is only answerable
to God alone
- Service/Duty
- Service to the state, Lear fails
- Kent service to Lear as Caius mainly
- Service to the state, Lear fails
- Violence
- King Lear is fundamentally a play, critics have sometimes deemed it unplayabe because of the extent to the violence
- King Lear is fundamentally a play, critics have sometimes deemed it unplayabe because of the extent to the violence
- Good vs. Evil
- Evil nonexistent in the Ancient World
- Evil nonexistent in the Ancient World
- Control, Lack of Control
- Lear Act 3 Scene 2
- Oedipus once understands
- Lear Act 3 Scene 2
- Healing?
- The world is not healed at the end of the play 'we that are
young Shall never see so much, nor live so long' Edgar
- The Chorus at the end see it as a lesson to be learnt, seperate Oedipus from everyone else, hope for future?
- The world is not healed at the end of the play 'we that are
young Shall never see so much, nor live so long' Edgar
- Sympathy and Support for Characters
- Pathos in Ancient World. The Chrous in Oedipus,
Lear's lament, pathos evoked with everyones
sorrow
- Act 5 Scene 3 Albany: 'That is but a trifle here'
- Pathos in Ancient World. The Chrous in Oedipus,
Lear's lament, pathos evoked with everyones
sorrow
- Justice, Lack of Justice
- Fate governs Justice?
- Fate governs Justice?
- Dramatic Irony?
- Act 1 Scene 2 Edgar: Some
villain hath done me wrong
- Act 1 Scene 2 Edmund: I am no honest man
- Act 1 Scene 2 Edmund: I am no honest man
- The effect of Dramatic Irony is that it encompasses
the audience into the story, for they know the truth of
the situation, whereas the characters do not. In
Oedipus especially, the audience are fundamentally
well aware of the myth regarding Oedipus
- Act 1 Scene 2 Edgar: Some
villain hath done me wrong
- Innocence
- Albany; white, innocent state of Albany,
especially contrasting against Goneril
- Albany; white, innocent state of Albany,
especially contrasting against Goneril
- Animal Imagery
- Disguise
- Madness vs Insight
- Have to be mad/ go through
madness to have the insight?
- Have to be mad/ go through
madness to have the insight?
- Naivety
- Nature and the Natural World
- Social Constructs
- What defines the person, rank, clothing, birthright
- The Great Chain of Being, The Divine Right of Kings
- What defines the person, rank, clothing, birthright
- Rhetoric Ability
- Oppostion
- Edmund concludes his opposition at the finale
- Edmund: Machiavellian Principles
- Edmund concludes his opposition at the finale
- Birthright
- Wheel of Fortune
- Indebtedness
- Secrecy/Conveying
- Naturally fits into truth
- Oedipus shows trying to withhold
information can be for the best
- Tiresias: How
terrible is it to know
Where no good
comes of knowing
- Naturally fits into truth
- Abandonment
- Family
- Leadership
- Rage
- Voice of Widsom
- Oedipus - The voice is suppressed as much as possible
- Oedipus - The voice is suppressed as much as possible
- Hubris
- Role of Kings
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