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| King Lear & Cordelia First performance: December 26, 1606 |
My first question was "why is truth being ignored?"
The fool, Cordelia and Kent seem to be sensible.
Regan and Gonoril are like the evil stepsisters in Cinderella.
Passion in King Lear is negative
Regan and Gonorils' greed is a form of passion.
Edmund's jealousy and betrayal/deceit is passion
gouging out Gloucester's eye is is an act of passion
Good children versus bad children
The forgiving children - unconditional love versus ungratefulness
Yet again the enemy is in Persian attire, we've seen this in previous texts - (Lear, 202).
Free will of choices but consequences are determined by fate, reaction, natural outcome.
The daughters ungratefulness, out casting and causing suffering to dad who has given inheritance is not OK!
The behaviour shocks me. I suppose it's a nuisance and liability to have old, unproductive, senile characters about.
Treatment of the elder would depend on ones empathy and goals. "No cause, no cause" said Cordelia (Lear, 250)
I have been worried about the onslaught of becoming an elderly person. It's seems like an ungrateful fate to end up with ill health, poverty, isolation. A life spent working, surviving, accumulating.
now to downsize; all that is precious to you is either considered garbage by your heirs or worth fighting over.
Unless one has set up a good retirement plan money wise it will be bleak. Mercy of the alliances with ones children can not be counted on.
Tragedy is important because it secures us in knowing that we are not suffering alone, to let us laugh in some cases, to bring about the realisation it could be worse.
Perhaps they are moral lessons - what not to do!
Cordelia dies because;
Nice guys finish last.
Perhaps she is a perceived threat
It wouldn't be a tragic enough ending if she didn't.
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