King Lear Tragedy

King Lear Tragedy

1. Harmatia - a fatal flaw in the character: Lear's blindness

   • 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

   • Use of stock characters; a faithful male servant
     • Greek mythology - blood and lust

3. Elizabethan Tradegy

   • Became unique to Elizabethan tragedy - most horrors are executed off stage and reported by a messenger - Gloucester's blinding

4. Chronicle/ Morality Play

5. Catharisis - the process of releasing compressed feeling or purging

6. Peripeteia

   • A reversal of fortune/ a change in circumstances

7. Agnorisis

   • A moment when the character sees more clearly than before/ a critical discovery

8. A Chorus

   • A group of characters that commented on the action (Horatio in Hamelt) Possibly Kent, but he is involved in action

9. Hubris

   • Excessive pride and brought to doom. Think they are better than the Gods

10. Pathos

    • A quality that evokes pity or sadness