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King Lear : Nothing and the Fool

Seminar Presentation ENG 4U5. King Lear : Nothing and the Fool. Nothing’s a Fool. Mitchell Mahood Raphael Koh Daniel Allen Dylan Seago Meaghan Horsley. Nothing = Everything. Fool = Wise. Overview. Significance of "Nothing" Act 1 - 2 by Mitchell Mahood Act 3 - 5 by Raphael Koh

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King Lear : Nothing and the Fool

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  1. Seminar Presentation ENG 4U5 King Lear: Nothing and the Fool Nothing’s a Fool Mitchell Mahood Raphael Koh Daniel Allen Dylan Seago Meaghan Horsley

  2. Nothing = Everything Fool = Wise

  3. Overview • Significance of "Nothing" • Act 1 - 2 by Mitchell Mahood • Act 3 - 5 by Raphael Koh • Significance of "Fool" • Act 1 by Daniel Allen • Act 2 - 3 by Dylan Seago • Act 4 - 5 by Meaghan Horsley

  4. SCRIPT Sympathy/Pathos for a character Character DevelopmentRelationshipsImages/MotifsPlot/SettingThemes

  5. Themes • Justice • "It is up to human beings to administer justice in the world. " • Authority VS Chaos • "Once authority is lost, chaos will reign. " • Richness • "You must be poor to be rich. " • Appearance VS Reality • "Things are not what they appear to be."

  6. The Significance of

  7. The Significance of Nothing Parts of Play: Acts 1, 2 Presenter: Mitchell Mahood

  8. The Significance of Nothing A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak. CORDELIA: Nothing, my lord. KING LEAR: Nothing! CORDELIA: Nothing. KING LEAR: Nothing will come of nothing: speak again. (I.i.86) • Character Development • Sympathy

  9. The Significance of Nothing Right noble Burgundy, When she was dear to us, we did hold her so; But now her price is fall'n. Sir, there she stands: If aught within that little seeming substance, Or all of it, with our displeasure pieced, And nothing more, may fitly like your grace, She's there, and she is yours. (I.i.200) • Sympathy • Relationships

  10. The Significance of Nothing BURGUNDY: Royal Lear, Give but this portion which yourself proposed, And here I take Cordelia by the hand, Duchess of Burgundy. KING LEAR: Nothing: I have sworn; I am firm. (I.i.241) • Sympathy • Relationships

  11. The Significance of Nothing GLOUCESTER: Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter? EDMUND: I know no news, my lord. GLOUCESTER: What paper were you reading? EDMUND: Nothing, my lord. (I.ii.28) • Plot

  12. The Significance of Nothing No? What needed, then, that terrible dispatch of it into your pocket? the quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself. Let's see: come, if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles. (I.ii.32) • Plot

  13. The Significance of Nothing We have seen the best of our time: machina- tions, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves. Find out this villain, Edmund; it shall lose thee nothing; do it carefully. And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his offence, honesty! 'Tis strange. (I.ii.118) • Plot

  14. The Significance of Nothing I am no honest man if there be any good meaning towards you: I have told you what I have seen and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image and horror of it: pray you, away. (I.ii.179) • Plot • Character Development

  15. The Significance of Nothing Leave thy drink and thy whore, And keep in-a-door, And thou shalt have more Than two tens to a score. KENT: This is nothing, fool. Fool: Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer; you gave me nothing for't. Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle? Lear: Why no, boy. Nothing can be made of nothing. (I.iv.137) • Character Development

  16. The Significance of Nothing Fool: I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are: they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt have me whipped for lying; and sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be thee, nuncle; thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides, and left nothing i' the middle: here comes one o' the parings. (I.iv.189)

  17. The Significance of Nothing Fool: Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care for her frowning; now thou art an O without a figure: I am better than thou art now; I am a fool, thou art nothing.[To GONERIL.] Yes, forsooth, I will hold my tongue; so your face bids me, though you say nothing. (I.iv.195)

  18. The Significance of Nothing Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall? He's coming hither; now, i' the night, i' the haste, And Regan with him: have you nothing said Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany? Advise yourself. (II.i.26)

  19. The Significance of Nothing ...super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch (II.ii.25) • Character Development

  20. The Significance of Nothing KENT: Draw, you rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon shines; I'll make a sop o' the moonshine of you: draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw. [Drawing his sword.] OSWALD: Away! I have nothing to do with thee. (II.ii.35) • Plot

  21. The Significance of Nothing Approach, thou beacon to this under globe, That by thy comfortable beams I may Peruse this letter! Nothing almost sees miracles But misery: I know 'tis from Cordelia, Who hath most fortunately been inform'd Of my obscured course; (II.ii.168) • Theme - Richness

  22. The Significance of Nothing That's something yet: Edgar I nothing am. (II.iii.21) • Character Development • Sympathy

  23. The Significance of Nothing Parts of Play: Acts 3 - 5 Presenter: Raphael Koh

  24. The Significance of Nothing Tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. (III.i.9) • Imagery • Sympathy • Symbolism - Chaos

  25. The Significance of Nothing No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing. (III.ii.38) • Character Development • Theme - Authority VS Chaos

  26. The Significance of Nothing Go to; say nothing. (III.iii.8) • Nothing = Everything • Plot - Foreshadowing • Relationship • Sympathy

  27. The Significance of Nothing Lear: Couldst thou save nothing? Wouldst thou give ‘em all? Fool:Nay, he reserved a blanket, else we had been all shamed. Lear: Now all the plagues that in the pendulous air Hang o'er men's faults light on thy daughters! Kent: He hath no daughters, sir. Lear: Death, traitor; nothing could have subdued nature To such lowness but his unkind daughters. (III.iv.64) • Plot – Dramatic Irony • Sympathy • Character Development • Motif - Madness

  28. The Significance of Nothing The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst Owes nothing to thy blasts. (IV.i.9) • Character Development • Plot - Foreshadowing

  29. The Significance of Nothing Y’are much deceived: in nothing am I changed But in my garments. (IV.vi.9) • Nothing = Everything • Plot - Dramatic Irony

  30. The Significance of Nothing 'There is nothing done, if he return the con- queror: then I am the prisoner, and his bed my jail; from the loathed warmth whereof deliver me, and supply the place for your labour.’ (IV.vi.269) • Nothing = Everything • Plot

  31. The Significance of Nothing There is my pledge: I‘ll make it on thy heart, Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less Than I have here proclaimed thee. (V.iii.95) • Plot • Theme - Justice

  32. The Significance of

  33. The Significance of Fool Parts of Play: Act 1 Presenter: Daniel Allen

  34. The Significance of Fool we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedi- ence of planetary influence; (I.ii.123). • Fate/Freewill • Character • Sympathy

  35. The Significance of Fool A credulous father! and a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing harms, That he suspects none: on whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy! I see the business. Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit: All with me's meet that I can fashion fit. (I.ii.183) • Motif - Betrayal • Plot

  36. The Significance of Fool Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool? (I.iii.1) • Relationship

  37. The Significance of Fool Idle old man, That still would manage those authorities That he hath given away! Now, by my life, Old fools are babes again; and must be used With checks as flatteries,--when they are seen abused. Remember what I tell you. (I.iii.17) • Relationship • Character

  38. The Significance of Fool Follow me; thou shalt serve me: if I like thee no worse after dinner, I will not part from thee yet. Dinner, ho, dinner! Where's my knave? my fool? Go you, and call my fool hither. (I.iv.41) • Plot - Reunited • Character - Impatience

  39. The Significance of Fool Thou but rememberest me of mine own con- ception: I have perceived a most faint neglect of late; which I have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as a very pretence and purpose of un- kindness: I will look further into't. But where's my fool? I have not seen him this two days. (I.iv.67) • Relationship - Fool & Cordelia • Character - Flattery

  40. The Significance of Fool Fool: Mark it, nuncle: Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest; Leave thy drink and thy whore, And keep in-a-door, And thou shalt have more Than two tens to a score. KENT: This is nothing, fool. (I.iv.119) • Fool = Wise • Opposite

  41. The Significance of Fool Prithee, tell him, so much the rent of his land comes to: he will not believe a fool. (I.iv.36) • Character Development - Stubborn

  42. The Significance of Fool LEAR: A bitter fool! Fool: Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a bitter fool and a sweet fool? (I.iv.139) • Character Development - Criticism • Relationship

  43. The Significance of Fool That lord that counsell'd thee To give away thy land, Come place him here by me, Do thou for him stand: The sweet and bitter fool Will presently appear; The one in motley here, The other found out there. (I.iv.142)

  44. The Significance of Fool KING LEAR: Dost thou call me fool, boy? Fool: All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with. (I.iv.150) • Character - Criticism

  45. The Significance of Fool This is not altogether fool, my lord. (I.iv.153) • Fool = Wise

  46. The Significance of Fool No, faith, lords and great men will not let me; if I had a monopoly out, they would have part on't: and ladies too, they will not let me have all fool to myself; they'll be snatching. Give me an egg, nuncle, and I'll give thee two crowns. (I.iv.154) • Character - Foolish

  47. The Significance of Fool [Singing.] Fools had ne'er less wit in a year; For wise men are grown foppish, They know not how their wits to wear, Their manners are so apish. (I.iv.167) • Character - Foolish

  48. The Significance of Fool Then they for sudden joy did weep, And I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bo-peep, And go the fools among. Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach thy fool to lie: I would fain learn to lie. (I.iv.176) • Character - Foolish • Relationship - Loyalty

  49. The Significance of Fool I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are: they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt have me whipped for lying; and sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be thee, nuncle; thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides, and left nothing i' the middle: here comes one o' the parings. (I.iv.183) • Character - Ruthless

  50. The Significance of Fool Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care for her frowning; now thou art an O without a figure: I am better than thou art now; I am a fool, thou art nothing. (I.iv.192) • Relationship - Swap • Character

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