Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Nihilism
- Lear wants to have to deal with nothing
- Cordelia's refusal to speak
- Daughters believe Lear
deserves nothing (knights)
- Reduction of Lear's language
- Dropping of royal pronouns
- We have no such daughter
- I am a fond foolish old man
- Lear shouting into the storm, shouting into nothing
- Edgarhas
nothing
- Gloucester sees nothing
- I am a fool thou are nothing
- No No
No life
- Dismemberment
- mock trial, Lear is surrounded by nothing
- i took her for a foot-stool
- religious Nihilism
- The gods are just
- Gods never appear
- Lear disrobes
- Epistemological nihilism
- Denies the possibility of knowledge and truth
- Disguises
- Edgar denied the truth of who is is
- Kent
- After Lears death he too goes to die
- No place for truth
and knowledge in
the play
- Changes where we
think it comes from,
NOT linked to status
or class.
- THe fool
- Voice of truth and knowledge
- Disappears
- No place for
truth and
knowledge in
the play
- Political Nihilism
- For positive change
the political social
order must be
destroyed
- Edmund attempts to get his inheritance
- Are the 'bad' characters needed?
- They create the chaos
which allows Edgar to come
forward and change the
situation for the better
- Ethical Nihilsm
- Morals are creation of
society, there is no such
thing as good or bad
- Not so much, right and wrong very clear from audiences confrontation with horror
- Honest in its depiction of morality
- Existential Nihilism
- Life has no meaning or value
- Edgar saves
Gloucester from
suicide because life
has value
- I will endure. In such a
night as this!
- etermination to survive, life has purpose
- Ecphonesis
- Audio cue, shows great despair
- Shakespeare one of the first students to learn the figure 0
- 0 vs o
- Nothing, everything is reduced to nothing
- COnstant reiteration
- o me! my heart
- The blame of Lear's loss on his daughters
- Nothing could have subdued his nature to such lowness