ENGL 348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Goneril, Wife-Carrying, Wield
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More on 1. 1: entropy is governed by play & by lear"s death. Is it crawling of old man, or crawling of infant. In baby"s imagination, mother is embalmed & baby is her king: foreshadowed how lear is unburdened of everything & is simultaneously stripped of his character, lear is interested in who loves him most, not who he loves most. Line 69: "i made of that self mettle as my sister,/ and prize me at her worth. In my true heart/ i find she names my very deed of love: alerts reader to their hardness, deeding of land, hint of incest, deed of sex. "in my true heart: cordelia"s name means heart (cord) & ideal (delia, cordial, medicine of heart. "i won"t have sex unless i think about my father" If you want both control & love someone then they must die to be controlled & then loved (like othello)
