ENGL 348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Goneril
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Lear"s world: lear"s world is one of an anticipated apocalypse, depicts our future of teetering on cliff (like gloucester) & little prevents us from falling. 2. 2 line 445: "allow not nature more than nature needs,/ man"s life is cheap as beast"s" "things that make us human are things we borrow from animals & things we invent (not things that are naturally ours): motif in play: anti-pastoral on heath. In lear"s world: no bush or accommodating sheep farms to take shelter at during storm: no one has enough to wear. In shakespeare"s time, grown children would kneel to parents. 2. 2 line 300: "o sir, to wilful men/ the injuries that they themselves procure/ must be their schoolmasters. 3. 2: kent discovers difference between albany & cornwall, 1605 - france is serious threat to britain, shakespeare represents france as entity of good faith (wants french to invade) Imagines world is pregnant woman, wants it destroyed.
