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Sight Vs Blindness

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

SIGHT VS BLINDNESS

LEAR WAS BLIND TO THE TRUE NATURE OF HIS DAUGHTERS

  • "With my two daughters' dowers, digest the third"
  • Lear is easily fooled by Goneril and Regan.

LEAR FAILS TO RECOGNISE CORDELIA AND KENT'S DEVOTION

  • 'Hence and avoid my sight'
  • Lear banishes Cordelia when he misinterprets her love.
  • "Out of my sight!"
  • Lear banishes Kent and the truth.

KENT PLEADS WITH LEAR

  • "See better Lear"
  • Kent attempts to show Lear the truth and
  • to help him realise the true nature of his callous
  • daughters.

IN HIS MADNESS, LEAR "SEES BETTER"

  • He sees human suffering.
  • "Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is
  • no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art"
  • Lear rejects wealth as he sees the suffering in the world

HE SEES HIS OWN FLAWS

  • "O! I have ta'en too little care of this"
  • Lear sees that he was a neglectful
  • King and that he did not care enough for
  • the people i his kingdom

HE SEES HIS MISTAKES

  • "I wrong'd her"
  • He sees the mistakes he has made by disinheriting
  • Cordelia and dividing his kingdom between G&R
  • "I am asham'd that thou hath power to shake my
  • manhood thus"

HE SEES WHAT LOVE TRULY IS

  • "Thou art a soul in bliss"
  • Lear sees Cordelia's true nature
  • and love.

SUBPLOT

GLOUCESTER'S BLINDNESS MIRRORS LEAR

  • "Not in his land shall he remain uncaught"
  • Gloucester is blind to
  • Edmund's true nature and believes
  • him almost immediately

BLIND TO EDMUND'S DECEPTION

  • "Why os earnestly seek you to put up
  • that letter?"
  • He falls for Edmund's trickery while remaining
  • blind to Edgar's devotion.

IRONY

  • ""O my follies! Then Edgar was abus'd"
  • Once Gloucester is physically blinded by
  • Cornwall and Regan, he finally sees
  • The error of his ways.

EDGAR DELIVERS GLOU FROM THE BLINDNESS OF DESPAIR

  • "Henceforth i'll bear affliction till it do cry
  • out itself 'ENough, enough!' And die"
  • Edgar guides Gloucester to seeing thst
  • suffering is part of the human condition

GLOUC IS MORALLY BLIND

  • He was blind to reject Edgar.
  • He also boasts about Exmund's conception
  • "Ther was good sport in his making"
  • He is proud that he was unfaithful to his wife