Existentialist interpretation of King Lear by Clare D https://padlet.com/clareswhere/frb1mqfrspda 'King Lear rejects the natural order of the world and sets out on a search for truth through existential crisis' R. Alan Berry en-us 2014-05-11 16:33:28 UTC 2017-05-17 04:31:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Tolu https://padlet.com/clareswhere/frb1mqfrspda/wish/27782118 ''tis our fast intent/ To shake all cares and business from our age'. Lear rejects the natural order of the world by dividing the kingdom between his daughters as he is breaking tradition. By doing so, Lear indirectly rejects God as he is at the top of the great chain of being, which results in chaos.

]]> 2014-05-12 09:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/clareswhere/frb1mqfrspda/wish/27782118 Alex https://padlet.com/clareswhere/frb1mqfrspda/wish/27782620 'And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a heorse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?' Cordelia's death leavs Lear to feel that there is no Justice in the world

]]> 2014-05-12 09:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/clareswhere/frb1mqfrspda/wish/27782620 Sasha https://padlet.com/clareswhere/frb1mqfrspda/wish/27782913 "Is man no more than this?...unaccomodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art."

Lear refers to man as an "animal" rejecting any sense of hierachy and acknowledging that men are all equal when removed from the trappings of wealth and privelege.

]]> 2014-05-12 09:56:14 UTC https://padlet.com/clareswhere/frb1mqfrspda/wish/27782913 Alexandra https://padlet.com/clareswhere/frb1mqfrspda/wish/27783234 'My lord, you have one eye left to see some mischief on him, Oh!' Spoken by the first servant who is 'slain' trying to showing that justice cannot be relied on to be XXX by the gods or a greater power but human action, and these actions are not necessarily met with justice either as seen here when the servant consequently dies

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