Zusammenfassung der Ressource
KING
LEAR
- Main Plot
- King Lear
- Daughters
- Goneril
- Albany
- Realizes Goneril's harsh
treatment of Lear
- Cruelest of the sisters
- Insults Lear
- Removes his privilege of a hundred knights
- Power hungry
- Bickers with Regan over ruling of kingdom
- Regan
- Cornwall
- Cruel
- Plucks out Gloucester's eyes
- Follows Goneril's decision
to be harsh to Lear
- At first she doesn't seem as
bad as Goneril, but is in fact
just as evil as her.
- Cordelia
- France
- In exile
- She refused to flatter
Lear like her sisters did
- Friends
- Kent
- Loyal
- Disguises himself when banished
- Fool
- The fool acts as Lear's conscience by speaking
sense to him throughout.
- Sub Plot
- Gloucester
- Edgar
- Edmund
- Tragedy - why King
Lear is a
Shakespearean
tragedy?
- Impulsive King
- Lear decided to
go against his
divine right as
king by dividing
up his kingdom,
this was seen as
going against the
gods
- Flaw = love tet
- The love test was based on which daughter
could flatter him the most, "which of you
shall we say doth love us most". It wasn't
based on the ability of who would make the
best ruler.
- Journey
- Through insanity Lear begins to realise his mistakes
- He was helped by the
Fool, Edgar (Poor
Tom) and Kent