Richard II Palomar College帕洛马学院的Richard II.pptVIP

King Lear Structure, characters, and themes King Lear King LearCharacters Main Plot Primary -- dynamic Protagonist, changes through play Lear Antagonist, character revealed Goneril, Regan Secondary -- static Reflection characters Cordelia, Kent, Fool, France King LearCharacters Sub Plot Good Gloucester, Edgar Evil Edmund Reflection characters Oswald, Albany, Cornwall, servant to Cornwall 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 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” King LearSeeing motif Act 4 “I stumbled when I saw” “Might I but live to see thee in my touch, I’d say I had eyes again” Act 5 “As for the mercy Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia, The battle done, and they within our power, Shall never see his pardon” “Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips,Look there, look there!” King LearMotifs and Imagery Motifs Seeing Judging Flattery “the worst” “unaccomodated man” Patience nothing Imagery Insults Foul fiend, madness Swearing by Gods Astrology King LearThemes Parent/child relationship Flattery Madness Judgment Appearance vs. reality world view of Renaissance Christian Humanist and Machiavellian 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 * * King Lear Regan Goneril Cordelia Albany Cornwall France Scene 1 Lear divides country, Disowns Cordelia Cordelia bids farewell to siste