King Lear, Desperately Need Help With Essay (1 Viewer)

[modelzsuck]

I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THREE CONTRASTING SCENES IN DETAIL AND HOW THEY COMMENT ON THE PLAY AS A WHOLE, ANY IDEAS???

 

[Riddles]

how about the first scene, the storm scene, and the last scene?

 

[modelzsuck]

how do they contrast?

 

[freakcore]

Well, think about the differences in the portrayle of lear himself...his mental state his words and actions...is this in terms of the play in written form or as a stage production? because your interpretation of the play will colour how you think each part of the afforesaid scenes 'comments' on the scene as a whole...

for example in the first scene if you read lear as already senile then you feel sorry for him sooner and also feel a greater animosity towards Goneril and Regan as they are manipulating a tired and downtrodden old man...however if lear is confronting violent and manipulative we feel some sympathy for the daughters thus blocking the effect of the daughters actions when they come. Is he dividing a kingdom, a family, or creating a rift between king and kingdom, people and god....

In the storm the weight changes if your reading of lear is that he has already lost it. Is the storm a manifestation of his rage and anger? or the physical evidence of gods anger at his breaking the great chain of being? Or is it just a storm for storms sake? Is the storm evidence of his inner emotional termoil or of his fragile emotional and mental state?

The last scene... you have to decide whether lear believes cordelia alive or dead...and whether you think he died redeamed or hopeless...also if edgar is hopeful or discouraged. All comes from the interpretation...

Those three scenes really make the play especially as far as a modern audience is concerned as the fool has lost it significance as he has dated in a way that the themes and actions/words of the other characters havent.
Anyway hope that helps...

 

[modelzsuck]

Well, think about the differences in the portrayle of lear himself...his mental state his words and actions...is this in terms of the play in written form or as a stage production? because your interpretation of the play will colour how you think each part of the afforesaid scenes 'comments' on the scene as a whole...

for example in the first scene if you read lear as already senile then you feel sorry for him sooner and also feel a greater animosity towards Goneril and Regan as they are manipulating a tired and downtrodden old man...however if lear is confronting violent and manipulative we feel some sympathy for the daughters thus blocking the effect of the daughters actions when they come. Is he dividing a kingdom, a family, or creating a rift between king and kingdom, people and god....

In the storm the weight changes if your reading of lear is that he has already lost it. Is the storm a manifestation of his rage and anger? or the physical evidence of gods anger at his breaking the great chain of being? Or is it just a storm for storms sake? Is the storm evidence of his inner emotional termoil or of his fragile emotional and mental state?

The last scene... you have to decide whether lear believes cordelia alive or dead...and whether you think he died redeamed or hopeless...also if edgar is hopeful or discouraged. All comes from the interpretation...

Those three scenes really make the play especially as far as a modern audience is concerned as the fool has lost it significance as he has dated in a way that the themes and actions/words of the other characters havent.
Anyway hope that helps...

yeah, i understand now, thanks heaps for that