Critics Views AO5 - Themes Flashcards
Family - McLaughlin
neurotic drive
“Their misdirected life plans result from a neglected childhood, producing a neurotic drive for personal power,”
Family - Susan Bruce
fatherhood
“Lear’s mistakes seem to have more to do with fatherhood than character,”
Family - Dollimore
fixed and movement
“family relationships in this play are seen as fixed, and any movement within them is portrayed as a destructive reversal of power,”
Power - Foucalt
beliefs
“power is the sole determining influecne on the beliefs and values within any given culture,”
Marxist - Power
subverting
“Lear might be read as subverting tradiitonal views about power.”
Dollimore - Power
a play of
“A play of power, property and inheritance,”
Goldberg - Justice
no and only
“There is no supernatural justice, only human naturual justice,”
Harold bloom - justice
offensive
“For those who believe that divine justice somehow prevails in this world, King Lear ought to be offensive.”
Meaning - G KNIGHT
representitive
“King Lear is representative of not ancient Britain, not England, but the world
Violence - King
violent entertainmentn
“Shakespeare’s aim is to convert the stuff of violent entertainment into a shocking moral ordeal for its witnesses,”
Nothing - Shapiro
the idea of nothing is
“The idea of nothing is central to the play… insistent and apocalyptic negativity becomes a reoccurring drumbeat,”
Nature - JF Danby
dramatising
“King Lear can be regarded as a play dramatizing the meaning of the single word ‘nature,’
