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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Shakespeare's King Lear ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [ ]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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There has been many different views on the plays of William
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Shakespeare and definitions of what kind of play they were. The two most
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popular would be the comedy and the tragedy. King Lear to some people may
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be a comedy because they believe that the play has been over exaggerated.
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Others would say King Lear was a tragedy because there is so much suffering
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and chaos.
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What makes a Shakespearean play a comedy or a tragedy? King Lear
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would be a tragedy because it meets all the requirements of a tragedy as
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defined by Andrew Cecil Bradley. Bradley states that a Shakespearean
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tragedy must have to be the story of the hero and that there is exceptional
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suffering and calamity slowly being worn in as well as it being contrasted
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to happier times. The play also depicts the troubled parts in his life and
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eventually his death that is instantaneous caused by the suffering and
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calamity. There is the feeling of fear in the play as well, that makes men
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see how blind they are not knowing when fortune or something else would be
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on them. The hero must be of a high status on the chain and the hero also
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possesses a tragic flaw that initiates the tragedy. The fall of the hero
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is not felt by him alone but creates a chain reaction which affects
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everything below him. There must also be the element of chance or accident
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that influences some point in the play.
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King Lear meets all of these requirements that has been laid out by
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Bradley which is the most logical for a definition of a tragedy as compared
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to the definition of a comedy by G. Wilson Knight.
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The main character of the play would be King Lear who in terms of
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Bradley would be the hero and hold the highest position is the social
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chain. Lear out of Pride and anger has banished Cordelia and split the
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kingdom in half to the two older sisters, Goneril and Regan. This is
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Lear's tragic flaw which prevents him to see the true faces of people
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because his pride and anger overrides his judgement. As we see in the
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first act, Lear does not listen to Kent's plea to see closer to the true
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faces of his daughters. Kent has hurt Lear's pride by disobeying his order
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to stay out of his and Cordelia's way when Lear has already warned him,
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"The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft." Kent still disobeys Lear
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and is banished. Because of this flaw, Lear has initiated the tragedy by
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disturbing the order in the chain of being by dividing the kingdom,
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banishing his best servant and daughter, and giving up his thrown.
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Due to this flaw, Lear has given way to the two older daughters to
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conspire against him. Lear is finally thrown out of his daughters home and
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left with a fool, a servant and a beggar. This is when Lear realizes the
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mistake that he has made and suffers the banishment of his two eldest
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daughters. Lear is caught in a storm and begins to lose his sanity because
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he can not bear the treatment of his two daughters as well as the error he
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has made with Cordelia and Kent. Lear also suffers from rest when he is
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moving all over the place and the thing that breaks him is the death of his
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youngest daughter Cordelia. This suffering can be contrasted with other
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happier times like when Lear was still king and when he was not banished by
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his two daughters.
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The feeling of fear is when Lear is in the storm raging against the
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gods,
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"I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness. I never gave you kingdom,
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called you children, you owe me no subscription.",
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telling them to rage harder since he has not done anything for them and
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that he didn't deserve what he has received from his two daughters. The
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fear is how Lear in a short period of time went from king to just a regular
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peasant and from strong and prideful to weak and unconfident. This shows
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that men do not hold their own destiny and that even though things may be
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great now you can be struck down just as fast as was to Lear.
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The fall of Lear is not just the suffering of one man but the
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suffering of everyone down the chain. Gloucester loses his status and
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eyes, Cordelia and Kent banished, and Albany realizing his wife's true
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heart. Everything that happened to these characters are affected by Lear
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in one way or another and that if Lear had not banished Cordelia and Kent
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then the two sisters would not be able to plot against their father.
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Without the plot of the two sisters then Gloucester would not of lost his
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eyes to Cornwall and his status because he was guilty of treason.
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There is an element of chance in the play in which Edgar meets Oswald
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trying to kill his father because he is a traitor. Oswald is slain asks
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Edgar,
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"And give the letters which thou find'st about me to Edmund Earl of
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Gloucester. Seek him out upon the English party."
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Edgar finds a letter to Edmund from Goneril about the conspiracy to kill
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Albany. This part in the play affects the outcome of Goneril and Edmund in
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which will lead to both of their deaths.
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The pain and suffering endured by Lear eventually tears down his
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strength and sanity. Lear is not as strong, arrogant, and prideful as he
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was in the beginning of the play instead he is weak, scared, and a confused
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old man. At the end of the play Lear has completely lost his sanity with
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the loss of his daughter Cordelia and this is the thing that breaks Lear
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and leads to his death. Lear dies with the knowledge that Cordelia is dead
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and dies as a man in pain.
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"And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a
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rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, never,
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never, never, never, never!"
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King Lear has met all the requirements that Bradley has stated as a
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Shakespearean tragedy. Lear has a tragic flaw which is his pride that
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prevents him to see the true faces of people. He also initiates the
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tragedy by the banishment of Cordelia and Kent as well as dividing the
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kingdom. Lear has also suffered and endured the pains of his error which
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leads to his death and which is contrasted to that of happier times. There
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is the feeling of fear in the play which is of a King losing his crown and
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becoming a peasant. Lear has also created a chain reaction that affects
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everything down the chain. The element of chance is also introduced in the
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play with Edgar and Oswald, Oswald possessing the letter to Edmund. And
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the final part is the death of King Lear dying in suffering of the death of
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his daughter Cordelia.
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