Blindness Flashcards
Second point about blindness
Emotions cause blindness
First point about blindness
The dangers of metaphorical blindness
Third point about blindness
Through suffering, we attain insight
Fourth point
Humans are always partially blind
Examples for metaphorical blindness
Love test
Kent’s objection
Possibly the fool
Critics/context for metaphorical blindness
Marjorie Garber, Tragedy
Link to Oedipus for metaphorical blindness
Oedipus is blind because of the gods; desperate for the truth, while Jocasta, according to Weaver, is wilfully blind.
Quotes for metaphorical blindness
Which of you shall we say doth love us most
Thy truth then be thy dower
See better, Lear
My loves more ponderous than my tongue
Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow upon thy foul disease
After I have cut the egg i’th’middle and eat up the meat, the two crowns of the egg
Come not between the dragon and his wrath
Examples for emotions causing blindness
Lear taken in by flattery;rage at Cordelia
Gloucester’s belief in Edmund
Critics/context for emotions and blindness
Doctor Johnson: Lear would move our compassion but little, did we not rather consider the injured father than the degraded king
Divine right
Link to Oedipus for third point
Oedipus blindly desires to find his identity.
His emotional desire to be blind to all feeling
Quotes for emotion and blindness
Dearer than eyesight, space and Liberty
I love you more than word can wield the matter
Nothing, my Lord
The oppression of aged tyranny
O villain, villain! Abhorred villain! … Unnatural, detested, brutish villain!’
Examples of suffering providing insight
Lear’s compassion
Gloucester’s blinding
Critics context for suffering providing insight
Great chain of being
Link to Oedipus for suffering providing insight
Oedipus realisation that nothing was worth seeing, so he blinds himself…
