Natural Order Flashcards
Second point about natural order
Failure to accept prescribed social roles = chaos
What is the first point about natural order?
Divesting power disrupts the entire natural order of the world
Third point about natural order
Unnaturally cruel family
Examples for divesting power disrupting natural order
The love test - leads to Kent’s banishment and Cordelia’s rejection. Lear reduced to an animal/fool. The good characters don’t accept lear’s abdication. The stocks!
Divesting power disrupts natural order - critics and context
James I on unifying Britain, Divine Right
Charles Beauclerk - Lear’s breakdown is England’s breakdown
Quotes for divesting power disrupts natural order
We shall reveal our darker purpose
Unburdened crawl towards death
Which of you shall we say doth love us most
Kill thy physician and the fee bestow upon thy foul disease
To take the basest and most poorest shape/I accommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked man as thou art…
Loyal and Natural boy
The old kind king; hold thy hand in benediction oer m
Examples for rejection of prescribed roles
Edmunds rejection of illegitimacy
Goneril and Regans behaviour…
Critics/context for rejection of prescribed roles
Charles Beauclerk (sonnet 114); Marilyn French; the great chain of being
Quoted for rejection of prescribed role
Why brand they us with base? With baseness? Bastardy? Base, base
I grow, I prosper; now gods: stand up for bastards!
This is the excellent foppery of the world (prose)
The wheel is come full circle
Some good I mean to do yet, in spite of mine own nature
There was good sport at his making,and the whoreson must be acknowledged
A fool usurps my bed
I must change arms at home, and give the distaff into my husbands hands
Hang him instantly. Pluck out his eyes.
I had rather lose the battle than let that sister loosen him and me
Examples for unnaturally cruel family
Goneril and Regan join forces; authoritarian; role reversal
Edmund’s twisted sense of justice
Critics/context for unnaturally cruel family
Race Capet
Quotes for unnaturally cruel family
The unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years bring with them
O sir, to wilful men, the injuries they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
What need you five and twenty, ten, or five? What need one?
This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me that which my father loses, no less than all: the younger rises when the old doth fall
Examples for no natural order
The ending
Joint stool trial
Blinding
Critics/context for no natural order
Jan Kot. A.M Colman
Nihilistic reading
Quotes for no natural order
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all?
Is this the promised end
[alarum and retreat within]
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport
O cruel! O you gods!
Oh you mighty gods! This world I do renounce!
