Lear allows the Fool to get away with behaviour that other servants would not get away with. Kent in the production of King Lear. Lear, Kent and the Fool in the production of King Lear. The Earl of Kent is a rich and powerful man who is loyal to King Lear.
When Lear disinherits Cordelia , Kent tries to step in and advise the King but Lear banishes him from the kingdom. Kent stays loyal to Lear during the storm and helps Lear to escape to Dover. In Dover, Kent is reunited with Cordelia and they both continue to support the King. Kent is fiercely loyal to Lear and his loyalty includes speaking up when he feels the king needs advice. Kent seems to be regarded by other courtiers, such as Gloucester, as a good man who is loyal to the king.
Because of his insults, attitude, and insistence on fighting , Oswald, Cornwall and Regan regard the disguised Kent as an old thug. Cordelia is deeply grateful to Kent for looking out for her father at such risk to himself. Albany in the production of King Lear. Albany and Goneril receive news in the production of King Lear. When the kingdom is divided between Goneril and Regan , it is their husbands, the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall, who rule half the kingdom each.
Throughout the play, rumours abound and grow about division between the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall. Albany grows increasingly disgusted at the behaviour of his wife and her sister but fights with them against Cordelia and her invading French army. At the end of the play Albany is left to rule, along with Edgar. Albany believes he is right to feel loyalty to the king rather than siding with his wife, who seems vile and filthy to him.
Albany seems happy that the French army has landed and unhappy that his wife has returned home. Goneril regards her husband as a coward who does not know what he is doing.
Lear feels Kent has betrayed him by challenging him in this way and banishes him. Kent remains loyal to the king to the very end of the play. When Albany asks him to help rule the war-torn kingdom, Kent refuses, suggesting he cannot live any longer now Lear is gone. Gloucester is a trusted courtier at the start of the play and remains loyal to Lear throughout. Gloucester risks making Regan and Cornwall angry to protect the king and get him safely to Cordelia in Dover.
As a result, Gloucester loses both his influence and his eyes. When he meets Lear again on the beach at Dover, he is still loyal. When the battle is over, he declares that he will give all his power back to Lear, but Lear dies a few lines later. At the start of the play, Goneril makes a speech about her love for her father that pleases him and he rewards her with a third of his kingdom. She knows she is not his favourite child and is concerned about how he might behave as he gets older.
He becomes furious with her when she suggests he needs fewer followers and curses her with infertility. Lear refuses to listen to Goneril and Regan when they both insist he get rid of his followers. He insults them and curses them. Goneril lets him walk off into the storm. She suggests he deserves to suffer because of his own foolishness. At the beginning of Act 1, Lear thinks of Cordelia as his favourite child and intends to spend much of his retirement with her.
She loves him but is not sure how to express her love. When Cordelia is unable to express her love for her father in a way that pleases him, he completely disowns her. By the time Lear is reunited with Cordelia, he believes again that she is the daughter who loves him most and asks her forgiveness for how he treated her.
She readily forgives him. At the start of the play, Regan makes a speech about her love for her father that pleases him and he rewards her with a third of his kingdom.
She feels that her father is behaving more oddly as he grows older but comments that he has never been very self-aware. When Lear realises that Regan is siding with Goneril and against him, he curses her.
When he is banished for this, he again shows the measure of his loyalty, preferring to risk death by disguising himself and continuing to serve his master rather than obey the order to live in exile.
Losing sight of Lear when the latter rushes out into the storm, Kent sends news to Cordelia of the state of things, and goes to seek the King. He soon realizes that Lear has completely lost his mind and goes to the French camp to inform them of this and help them find him. A prince who balances clemency and cruelty is able to find times appropriate of their usage. How a prince should conduct himself to gain power and morale is a thread Shakespeare carefully incorporated from Machiavelli.
In the play, the issue of a clear conscience forms a key motif. When the conscience of the characters appears, it does so as a result of some action; as in the case of the aforementioned line, which follows Hamlet's conversation with the player. This line is of particular significance because it ties action and its effect on the conscience of the characters. Shakespeare had to create a character that would shock the audience but also be able to carry out the play. Shakespeare met both of these requirements by characterizing Iago as a villain that was trusted by every character in Othello.
This allowed Shakespeare to surprise the audience with a twist in the plot and carry out the major theme of trust and betrayal. From the beginning of Othello, William Shakespeare continuously emphasizes the fact that Iago is an honest and trusted individual, characterizing Iago as a sincere character. Leadership, betrayal, and chaos are all examples of taking control, not wanting to admit to their wrong doings, and the results from not acknowledging their faults.
Works Cited The tragedy of Julius Caesar. Oedipus judges Tiresias immediately to keep him below him in his mind and thinks he is far more superior to him. Oedipus accuses Creon for conspiring with Tiresias so that they can take his throne away from him. He becomes jealous and fearful that they were trying to take away his title of king.
Being king is his identity — for him, it is not a job, but who he is. Speak thus? Who is it that can tell me who I am? This article supports my claim that the overturning of the social order in King Lear plays a key role in establishing the absence of higher powers in the world. At the play's end, Kent is offered the job of co-ruling the kingdom since Lear's entire family is dead. What does the ridiculously loyal Kent do? He says, "No thanks" and implies that he's going to commit suicide so he can be with his "master" Lear.
What's Shakespeare trying to say? That Kent's loyalty as a servant is admirable? Or that Kent's devotion to Lear is just plain stupid?
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