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Nihilism
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Mind map of Nihilism in King Lear
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king lear
nihilism
a2 level
english literature
english literature
a2 level
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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
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