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Journeys in King Lear

Journeys in King Lear. Adapted from Geoff Sheehan (2011). Journeys in King Lear. ‘homo viator ’ = Man the traveller, between two worlds, on the way Physical & Mental travellers = Gloucester & Lear Undertake a journey toward establishing a sense of redemption / self-realisation.

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Journeys in King Lear

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  1. Journeys in King Lear Adapted from Geoff Sheehan (2011)

  2. Journeys in King Lear • ‘homo viator’ = Man the traveller, between two worlds, on the way • Physical & Mental travellers = Gloucester & Lear • Undertake a journey toward establishing a sense of redemption / self-realisation

  3. Lear’s Journeys KL: Who is it that can tell me who I am? Fool: Lear’s shadow (nothing) • Castle – Hovel - Tent • Finery – nakedness – simple white garment • Arrogance – humility – love • Crown – clothes – flowers (clothes of justice, judge’s hat) • Grand blank verse – prose – natural blank verse (crawl towards death - pray do not mock me • Self-ignorance – madness - understanding

  4. LEAR’S Journey Through Imagery • Knows nothing but thinks he knows everything ‘thou art an O without a figure’ Appearance of everything but in fact nothing – false knowledge. ‘image of crown’ • Becomes nothing Clothing & poor naked wretches • Dies at beginning of understanding of perfection that is love

  5. Gloucester’s Journey • Castle – Dover – Tent • Blind – blinded – ‘sees feelingly’ (off stage violence) • ‘dies in bed’ - symbolic suicide – ‘redeemed through rebirth

  6. Storm scene • We see in this scene the world reduced to the basic elements of • Earth - humus • Air – wind • Fire – lightening • Water – rain Be being reduced to the essence of nature, Lear learns concern for others – in other words, he learns what really ‘matters.’ (pun very much intended)

  7. PATIENCE • Patior (to suffer) • Sustained through metaphor of the body: strained, twisted, pierced, buffeted, strain, strife, stretched

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