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King Lear Criticism
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- 1Cordelia had an impact on the play and the audience... out of all proportion to the scanty number of words she utters'Gamini Salgado
- 2'The very pointlessness of Cordelia's death and Lear's suffering is the point'Gamini Salgado
- 3To Edmund (and Goneril, Regan and Cornwall), nature is a force encouraging the individual to think only of the fulfiment of his own desire, even if that involves him in trampling others'Wilson
- 4Some critics have argued that the play offers no guaranteed moral vantage pointSomewhat accurate
- 5the fall of each character as being reflective of being an apocalypseFrank Kermode
- 6'Cordelia recognises their rhetorical falsity'Kermode
- 7'Ending of the play undermines the lessons it set out to teach, there is no convincing assertion of the moral and social order at the end which is the effect he wanted to achieve.'Fintan O'Toole
- 8'Moral ending is the fight between Edmund and Edgar- good wins against evil. But the play continues regardless and as Cordelia returns which forces the audience to re-live Lear's suffering'Fintan O'Toole
- 9'King Lear must surely be read in terms of the danger of a monarch cutting himself off from the people he rules. The play does not represent a king who is ineffective or unimpressive, but one who has not taken enough care of his kingdom'Andrew Hadfield
- 10'As the play's tragic logic reveals, Lear cannot have both the public deference and the inward love of his children'Stephen Greenblatt
- 11The Fool is 'the trickle of sanity running throughout the play'Orwell
- 12'Shakespeare uses the beings that his world deems lowly and foolish to destabilize conventional wisdom'Cheri Y. Halvorson
- 13'the profound wisdom and insight of Lear's fool enable them to expose the foolish thoughts and deeds of those who inhabit the higher ranks of society'Cheri Y. Halvorson
- 14'The principle theme of the play is the education and purification of Lear'Lamar
- 15'There is no supernatural justice- only human natural justice'S. L. Goldberg
- 16Edmund 'rejects custom, civilisation, he obeys nature's law of selfishness'G. Wilson Knight
- 17'Under the fine clothes, there is nothing but greed and lust'Frank Kermode
- 18'A play in which the wicked prosper and the virtuous miscarry'Johnson
- 19The play is 'monstrously unjust'Bradley
- 20'The great secret of the successful fool, is that he is no fool at all'Isaac Asimov
- 21'Cordelia is defined as a Christ-like figure, therefore her downfall is a direct representation of a God-less society'William Elton
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