Zusammenfassung der Ressource
King Lear Tragedy
- Harmatia - a fatal flaw in the character: Lear's blindness
- Aristotle said a person "who is not eminently good or just, yet whose fortune is brought about by some error or frailty"
- Senican Tragedy elemnents
- Use of stock characters; a faithful male servant
- Greek mythology - blood and lust
- Elizabethan Tradegy
- Became unique to Elizabethan tragedy - most horrors are executed off stage and reported by a messenger - Gloucester's blinding
- Chronicle/ Morality Play
- Catharisis - the process of releasing compressed feeling or purging
- Peripeteia
- A reversal of fortune/ a change in circumstances
- Agnorisis
- A moment when the character sees more clearly than before/ a critical discovery
- A Chorus
- A group of characters that commented on the action (Horatio in Hamelt) Possibly Kent, but he is involved in action
- Hubris
- Excessive pride and brought to doom. Think they are better than the Gods
- Pathos
- A quality that evokes pity or sadness