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- 1Justice"As flies to the wanton, boys are we to the gods." (4.1)
Shakespeare uses metaphor to liken the gods to immature children, and man to insignificant flies subject to sportful cruelty.
- Gloucester after being blinded - 2Nihilism"Nothing will come of nothing." (1.1)
Shakespeare uses repetition of nothing to prepare the audience for a play that begins with what is an impulsive, senseless act and ends with no meaning, no hope, no redemption for its characters. (Irony) - Lear - 3Nihilism"Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all? Never x5" (5.3). The repetition of never highlights the vision of the play as a whole. The world of King Lear is a world without meaning. (Rhetorical Q. + world is unjust)
- Lear after Cordelia's death. - 4Family"Why bastard, wherefore base." (1.2)
Edmund questions why bastards are excluded from social order. Shakespeare's use of a hard plosive 'b' sound throughout the soliloquy highlights Edmund's anger. Edmund plotting to usurp his brother. - 5Family"Here I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and property of blood." (1.1)
Repetition of plosive 'P' sound in order to express Lear's anger. Breaking down of family and the eventual effect this has on the breaking down of the kingdom. - Lear - 6Blindness"I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny at me. No, do thy worst, blind cupid." (4.6)
Lear alludes to the gods, referring to cupid as being blind, for allowing him to fall in love with his deceitful daughters. Literal and fig. blindness - Lear - 7Blindness"Tis the times plague, when madmen lead the blind." (4.1)
Gloucester's greater insight into the character of his two sons after being blinded reflects an irony: literal blindness ironically produces greater insight. - Glouc. - 8Power / Authority"All the world shall, I will do such things, what they are, yet I know not." (2.4)
Shakespeare utilises broken syntax to highlight Lear's momentary lapse in confidence. Lear is unable to enact revenge due to his loss of power. - 9Power / Authority"Forget and forgive, I am old and foolish." (4.7)
Lear finally takes responsibility for his lack of judgement, it is his moment of recognition. In his suffering and grief he has finally learnt humility. - 10Nature"Man's life is as cheap as beasts." (2.4)
Shakespeare uses simile to compare man to beasts. Once stripped bare of material possessions, King Lear and Edgar are nothing more than an animal. Nihilistic vision.
- Lear reasoning for having knights - 11Nature"It shall be done. I will arraign them straight... Now, you she foxes."
Animalistic metaphor suggests their cruel and unjust behaviour. They are ill natured and are compared to foxes as a result.
- Lear holds a trial of his daughters.
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