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Jena
6/9/2013 11:12:15 pm
Green, Andrew. “King Lear and the problem of the word: how far is the word to be relied on in the deceitful world Shakespeare creates in the King Lear? Andrew Green explores the plays treatment of the relationship between language and truth.” by Andrew Green. Green depicts how the concept of word is a great significance in King Lear. The audience is continually forced to recognize the gap which lies between utterance and truth. Green explains the play is born out of “dilemma of communication.” By characters who have become distant or completely “divorced.” The truth of words in King Lear are usually punished and/or repressed, “leads to banishment of Cordelia and Kent.” Kent forced into hiding, adopt the mask of foolery. Value of the word in truth and honor are assessed and reassessed as the play advances. Words of love are expressed and emphasized when Lear forces his daughters to speak of their love for him. Green can see the audience now understands “that Lear places an undue and naïve burden upon the importance of words.” Goneril we can see manipulates with skill around her father’s demands. From the start of the play the “exercise careful control of speech” is seen. The small phrase, “speak less than thou knowest.” (I.iv.117) The fool’s wise advice to his king. Speaking with King Lear is dangerous and an unpredictable activity. Words of wisdom are given, Kent expresses wisdom when introducing himself to Lear, “expresses his desire to converse with him that is wise and says little.” (I.iv.15) Finally seeing Lears foolishness early in the play.
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Emily Y.
6/10/2013 01:16:34 am
“King Lear and the problem of the word: how far is the word to be relied on in the deceitful world Shakespeare creates in King Lear? Andrew Green explores the play's treatment of the relationship between language and truth.” by Andrew Green
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Maddie
6/10/2013 04:59:04 pm
Green, Andrew. "King Lear and the problem of the word: how far is the word to be relied on in the deceitful world Shakespeare creates in King Lear? Andrew Green explores the play's treatment of the relationship between language and truth." The English Review Feb. 2002: 6+. Gale Power Search. Web. 7 Apr. 2012.
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Sonja
6/10/2013 06:12:05 pm
Lear Annotation: “King Lear and the problem with the world.:
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Cullen
6/10/2013 06:28:33 pm
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Bradley RRRRRRR
6/10/2013 06:28:38 pm
Bradley Runyon
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August Witte
6/10/2013 06:29:03 pm
In Alan Papprill's essay "The Stoic Universe of King Lear" they discuss the effect of time, politics, and societal norms, and issues to influence the interpretations of Shakespeare's "King Lear". Papprill also adds on that we carry a different philisophical view into the play, and that in Elizabethan times the philisophical view was of Fatal Stoicism. Fatal Stoicism, as explained by Papprill, is the idea that "what can happen may happen" (Papprill 1). Which Papprill explains that 21st century students have a difficult time comprehending since death is not an immediate threat, thus they cannot understand the meaning of death that Elizabethan people possesed. Papprill then goes on to explain that most people in Elizabethan Ebgland did not live past 30 and if they did they could expect to live to 60, meanign that Lear was most likely a 60 year old and his duaghters, along with Edmund and Edgar, are of marriageable age or 20. Then Kent being 48 also knows that his death is near due o his old age. With this understanding of ones mortality people during this time, according to Papprill, often meditated on their death and felt that it was better to die a good death rather than to lead a good life. But in the play Lear disregards the fact that life is a roulette wheel and tosses his "ball" in for chance and by not impeding the warning of the Fool and Kent his fate is set for failure and demise, and that as Papprill describes Kent acts as Lears guide and Cordelia as an honest man to Lear giving them true opinion and guidance. Which Papprill says that both Kent and Cordelia display courage, honesty, courage and loyalty to their master. Papprill then concludes by saying that death is not an agonous thing we feel but rather a thing that is sometimes welcomed as true fate and destiny for ones self and that a good death is better than a long life.
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Mackenzie J.
6/11/2013 03:45:40 am
The use of words drive Shakespeare’s «King Lear» play. Whether the characters decided to say something or ‘nothing,’ it chose the direction or fate of the characters. Andrew Green, in"King Lear and the problem of the word: how far is the word to be relied on in the deceitful world Shakespeare creates in King Lear? Andrew Green explores the play's treatment of the relationship between language and truth." Shows that “The concept of the word is of great significance in the play, and the audience is continually forced to recognise the gap which lies between utterance and truth.” (1) Green declares “Lear places an undue and naive burden upon the importance of words.”(3) For example, Lear wanted his daughter’s to profess their love, and ‘profess’ they did. Regan and Goneril’s untruthful words of love gain them a part of their father’s kingdom. Cordelia, however, believes that her love cannot be proven with words and therefore decides to say ‘nothing.’ “Her decision is based not upon any lack of verbal skill, as her subsequent speeches demonstrate her ability to communicate eloquently, but rather upon a fundamental mistrust of the `game' she is being forced to play.” (4) So, by saying ‘nothing’ she loses her father’s heart and unknowingly withdraws herself from the ‘game’ that her elder sisters have started. Cordelia practically handed the kingdom to her corrupted sisters and thus the play’s excitement starts.
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Cassidy Harless
6/11/2013 06:41:50 am
Speak the Truth Simply
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Nicky
6/12/2013 03:27:41 am
“Diagnosing Lear” by Antony Daniels, approaches the character analyses of King Lear with the idea that he is diagnosed according to British and American psychologist with incest explain that his behavior of going mad came from a genetic deform and that he was not to blame for any of his actions. Daniels then stated that he disagreed with this analysis stating that he believe the stress of seeing his daughters tear apart his kingdom and the responsibility of being King in the first place caused him to act out in the manner he does. Daniel moves on the character of Edmund explaining that he was born into the status of a bastered which caused him to create such an illusion of breaking free from the conformities of society that he became vicious and vengeful. “Edmund’s resentment taked the evil form of granting him permission to behave any way he likes because this wrong had been done to him.” This unjust judgment leads him to believe that moral judgment is unjust so he begins acting without compunction. The focus shifts back to Lear and how through observations of psychologist now a days he shows significant sign that correspond to the ones of Lear, which leads to the be wondering of how Shakespeare seems to compass out life experiences in plays even in its remotest corners. While it is believed that Lear’s character suffers almost the whole way through the play with going crazy he has a moment of clarity in which he realizes what has happened to his kingdom and what he has done. This happens when he is reunited with Cordelia. “I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man, Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What this place is and all the skill I have remembers nit these garments; Nor I know not where did lodge last night.” Lear is then examined in the way Shakespeare places him in which vice and virtue are not the same and all men and woman are not equal. Ending the essay with a justifying exclamation that Lear has the right to hit bitter outburst however those who do the same have not earned the right.
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Evan B
6/12/2013 09:31:10 pm
In his critical essay, “Diagnosing King Lear,” author Anthony Daniels criticizes the actions of doctors and other writers who have “been trying to diagnose King Lear for more than two centuries,” but “haven’t succeeded, of course, for a couple of reasons that are not mutually exclusive: first, king Lear does not exist, and second, he is not available for tests or examination.” (1) Daniels believes that while Shakespeare certainly hinted strongly at the possibility of psychiatric illness in Lear and a number of other characters, the attempt to diagnose a specific illness is, from a practical perspective, futile, and from a poetic perspective, irrelevant to Shakespeare’s very purpose for including Lear’s illness. As Daniels notes, Shakespeare provides various reasons for Lear’s madness through his characters, such as Gloucester’s superstitious assertion that “these late eclipses of the sun and moon portend no good to us.” (1) However, Daniels insists that Shakespeare’s point was not to highlight Lear’s madness, but rather to use madness to underscore the issue of evil common to all humans, mad or not. The seeming madness exhibited by Lear is merely an individual manifestation of the madness being suffered by the kingdom as a whole, but this chaos is not caused by an illness- it is caused by evil. Daniels goes on to question the origin of Edmund’s foul behavior, arguing that “a moral judgment” that is “unfair and unjust” may lead a person to conclude that “moral judgments as such are necessarily unfair and unjust,” and that revenge is therefore justified, and amorality desirable (3). Daniels relates this theme to human nature in general, asking “[how] many Edmunds are there in the world who use injustice done to them to inflict injustice upon others?” (3). Using this complex assumption, that “madness” in King Lear is caused not by the uncontrollable but by the controllable- that society and individuals are at least partly to blame for the injustices they so often complain about- Daniels returns to the issue of emotion and superficial expression in place of sincere sentiments, cynically but insightfully stating that “[reverbing] hollowness is all the rage, as if loud echoes were somehow guarantees of meaning.” (5) This reflective mirror can cause many to succumb to vanity, a “capital vice,” which in time may cause the evil and chaos so prominent in Daniels’ analysis. However, Daniels asserts, if sincerity is emphasized and the truth not only revealed, but accepted as such, it can stifle the influence of those who “want their outbursts to be taken as the literal truth and made the foundation of policy.” (6)
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