King Lear: Sense Of Renewal
Throughout Shakespeare's King Lear, there is a sense of renewal, or as
L.C. Knights puts it, “affirmation in spite of everything,” in the play. These
affirmative actions are vividly seen throughout the play that is highly infused
with evil, immorality and perverted values. These glimpses of hope seem to
provide the reader with an underlying notion of human goodness that remains
present, throughout the lurking presence of immorality and a lack of values.
However, in the end it is questionable if these are true revelations, and if the
affirmative notions are undermined, and thus less significant than the evil in
which they are engulfed.
In Act I Scene I, the first glimmer of hope is ...
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to gain her father's inheritance by engaging in
false flattery. Instead of trying to out due her sisters, she merely describes
her love in relation to their filial bond. Although her father views this as a
degrading insult and banishes her, it is shown that through her filial bond,
she loves her father with more depth and sincerity than her eager, self absorbed
sisters. Cordelia emerges amid the moral depravity and social decay as one who
is honest and true to her beliefs.
In banishing his daughter Cordelia from the kingdom and taking away her
inheritance, King Lear is destroying the natural order of society. She is left
abandoned by both her father and her presumed suitor, Burgundy. Yet Shakespeare
rewards Cordelia's noble character with another suitor, the King of France.
Despite all that has occurred in relation to being left destitute and friendless,
France gladly accepts the estranged Cordelia as his bride to be and applauds her
virtues that he states, make her ...
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on the immoral acts embraced by society and the goodness embraced
by Kent. He offers renewal to the reader after scene iii, in that he suggests
that not all are as bad as one imagines after reading Act I scene iii.
In Act I Scene III, Goneril is instructing Oswolde to insult her father
King Lear, and to treat him disrespectfully in every way possible. Goneril does
this to begin to take the power away from her father, and invest it in her own
glory and authority. In shifting loyalty from King Lear to Goneril, Oswolde is
disrupting the defined order of loyalty and servitude. Instead of embracing the
traditional order of servitude, Oswolde embraces the notion of power ...
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