Theme: Loyalty/ disloyalty/ betrayal Flashcards
Topic sentences
The preponderance of the youth in the play are presented as manipulative and power hungry.
Shakespeare emphasises a link between virtuosity and loyalty through the characters of Edgar and Cordelia who regard their elders with respect and duty.
Characters of menial/ low status backgrounds are portrayed as uttermost loyal.
The preponderance of the youth in the play are presented as manipulative and power-hungry.
Quotations
“That which my father loses no less than all… the younger rises when the old doth fall”
“Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter; dearer than eyesight space and liberty”
“Those pelican daughters”
Shakespeare emphasises a link between virtuosity and loyalty through the characters of Edgar and Cordelia who regard their elders with respect and duty.
Quotations
“Oh dear father it is thy business I go about”
“I have a journey, sir, shortly to go: my master calls me I must not say no”
“Was this a face to be opposed against the warring winds? To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, in the most terrible …cross-lightning?… mine enemy’s dog”
“The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most; we that are young.”
Characters of menial/low-status backgrounds are portrayed as uttermost loyal.
Quotations
“I have a journey, sir, shortly to go: my master calls me I must not say no”
“One eye left to see some mischief on him.O!” “They draw and fight. [he wounds cornwall]”
“.. thou hast slain me… give the letters which thou find’st about me to Edmund Earl of Gloucester”
The preponderance of the youth in the play is presented as manipulative and power-hungry.
Context
Queen Elizabeth famously made a speech in which she compared herself to a pelican, they believed pelicans would wound themselves to feed their young.
1. Brian Annesley- whose daughters had tried to declare him insane in order to gain his property
2. William Allen- whose daughters tried to swindle their own father and gain his money by improper means.
King Lear emphasizes this, as well as the prevalent fear that children of monarchs would take advantage of their vulnerable, elderly parents to attain wealth or power. The Elizabethan audience would certainly relate to this fear, making the tragedy of King Lear resonate even more deeply for play-goers.
Shakespeare emphasises a link between virtuosity and loyalty through the characters of Edgar and Cordelia who regard their elders with respect and duty.
Context
.The lack of morality by many characters in the play and the terrible consequences of this, indirectly promotes Christian values since we are shown the disastrous reality of a world without Christianity. The 10 commandments were the foundation for morality, honour thy mother and father.
Characters of menial/low-status backgrounds are portrayed as uttermost loyal.
Context
Belief that if you were born into a particular place you couldn’t rise
