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King Lear Structure, characters, and themes King Lear King LearCharacters Primary -- dynamic Protagonist, changes through play Lear Antagonist, character revealed Goneril, Regan Secondary -- static Reflection characters Cordelia, Gloucester, Edgar, Edmund, Kent, Fool King LearFoils Character foiling Lear and Gloucester Cordelia and Edgar Goneril/Regan and Edmund Plot foiling Act 1, sc 1 Act 5, sc 3 Act 3, sc 6 and sc 7 King LearThemes Parent/child relationship Flattery Madness Judgment Appearance vs. reality world view of Renaissance Christian Humanist and Machievellian King LearMotifs and Imagery Motifs Seeing Judging Flattery “the worst” “unaccomodated man” Patience nothing Imagery Insults Foul fiend, madness Swearing by Gods Astrology King LearSeeing motif Act 1 “Hence and avoid my sight” “Out of my sight!” “See better, Lear” “If it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles” Act 3 “Pluck out his eyes” “I would not see thy cruel nails pluck out his poor old eyes” “I shall see the winged vengeance overtake such children” “See it shalt thou never” Act 4 “I stumbled when I saw” “Might I but live to see thee in my touch, I’d say I had eyes again” King Lear -- Act I King Lear, Act I, scene 1 King Lear -- Act II King Lear -- Act III King Lear -- Act IV King Lear -- Act V King Lear, Act V, scene 3 * * Scene 1 Lear divides country, Disowns Cordelia Cordelia bids farewell to sisters Scene 2 Edmund soliloquy Conspiracy theory Advice to Edgar Scene 4 Kent to serve Lear as Caius Lear and Fool Lear and Goneril Scene 3 Goneril and Oswald Scene 5 Lear sends Kent to Regan Lear and Fool Lear Regan Kent Goneril Cordelia Cornwall Albany Fool Scene 1 Edmund and Edgar Cornwall/Regan and Gloucester Scene 2 Oswald and Kent Glou/Corn/Regan Kent in stocks Scene 3 Edgar Scene 4 Lear/Fool and Kent Lear and Regan Goneril comes Scene 1 Kent and Gentleman Scene 2 Lear on the Heath Scene 3 Gloucester And Edmund Scene 4 Lear in hovel Talks with Edgar as Poor Tom Scene 5 Co