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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
1.
SIGHT VS BLINDNESS
2.
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.
3.
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.
4.
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.
5.
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
6.
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
7.
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"
8.
HE SEES WHAT LOVE TRULY IS
"Thou art a soul in bliss"
Lear sees Cordelia's true nature
and love.
9.
SUBPLOT
10.
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
11.
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.
12.
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.
13.
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
14.
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
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