Thinking activity king lear

The tragedy of king lear 

Hello everyone I'm Asha Rathod I'm going to discribe about king lear which was I studied in B.A programm....

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane and a proscribed crux of political machinations. 

Characters:

           Cordelia,  Goneril,  Edmund, Regan, Lear, Earl of Gloucester, Earl of Kent, king of France, curan, Duke of Cornwall's servant , old man, Edgar, Duke of burgundy , Duke of albany , 

Playwright: William Shakespeare

First performance: 26 December 1606

• Plot summary of King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy based on the chronicle history of a pre-Roman, Celtic king of Britain. In Shakespeare's play, Lear, intending to retire, stages a love test for his three daughters: he will portion his kingdom between them as dowries according to how much they profess to love him.

King Lear, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1605–06 and published in a quarto edition in 1608, evidently based on Shakespeare’s unrevised working papers. The text of the First Folio of 1623 often differs markedly from the quarto text and seemingly represents a theatrical revision done by the author with some cuts designed for shortened performance.

✨ tragic hero 

King Lear is a tragic hero. He behaves rashly and irresponsibly at the start of the play. He is blind and unfair as a father and as a ruler. He desires all the trappings of power without the responsibility which is why the passive and forgiving Cordelia is the perfect choice for a successor.

✨Themes 

• Power
• Justice
• Nihilism
• Self-knowledge
• Old Age
• Blindness and Insight

✨Motifs 

• Betrayal
• Death
• Madness 

• Hamartia 

king Lear's hamartia (tragic flaw) is his arrogance and excessive pride. King Lear's tragic flaw of arrogance is what causes him to lose his daughter Cordelia (the one who truly loves him). Because of Lear's pride, he disowns Cordelia and loses his most faithful servant, Kent.

The moral of a story is the lesson that story teaches about how to behave in the world. Moral comes from the Latin word mores, for habits. The moral of a story is supposed to teach you how to be a better person.

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