This study is to analyze the duel construction in King Lear. This play consists of the conflict between the essential human dualities, as it were, that of body and spirit. Therefore the conflict makes a basic element in hero's experience, the division...
This study is to analyze the duel construction in King Lear. This play consists of the conflict between the essential human dualities, as it were, that of body and spirit. Therefore the conflict makes a basic element in hero's experience, the division of which provides the cores of drama.
King Lear constitutes both themes in its duel plot. Lear-find himself caught in a conflict between reason and intuition embodied by his daughters, while Gloucester is caught in the conflict between appearance and reality embodied by his sons. Therefore Lear's Passion journey parallels Glucester's. Through their individual passion trip Lear loses reason, Gloucester loses sight. They are purged.
In the dramatic construction this play's two plots fusing in Ⅲ. iv. supports only one plot composed of two elements. The experiment of this play has resulted in a construction which makes up for shakespeare's plays' earlier imperfection.