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Allegory in King Lear

Allegory in King Lear. By: Christina, Jasmine, James, Sabahat and Jody. What is Allegory?. A story, picture, or play employing representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form . Extended metaphor;

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Allegory in King Lear

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  1. Allegory in King Lear By: Christina, Jasmine, James, Sabahat and Jody

  2. What is Allegory? • A story, picture, or play employing representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. Extended metaphor; • one big imagery for a “big idea or theme” • Types of Allegory • Moral Allegory • Internal conflict • Social Allegory • External conflict • Religious Allegory • Spiritual conflict

  3. Moral Allegory: Plot An allegory that corresponds to the plot is PAIN • Physical • Psychological • Emotional

  4. Moral Allegory: Plot Those who go through pain: • Audience • All characters • Elements • Quote: III.iii.92-94 from play

  5. Moral Allegory: Lear • Lear represents emotion • He lets his emotions rule his actions • His quickness to anger leads to his downfall

  6. Moral allegory: The Fool When humans (Fool) choose self-interest (being loyal to Lear) over reasons (going up the Wheel with Goneril and Regan), it leads to his/her demise. “Let go they hold when a great wheel runs down a hill” (II,iv, 65) “But I will tarry, the fool will stay,/ And let the wise man fly” (II, iv, 75)

  7. Moral Allegory: Cordelia • Cordelia represents the moral soul of the play, and even with her honesty is still put through pain “You have begot me, bred me, loved me. I Return those duties back as are right fit— Obey you, love you, and most honor you. Why have my sisters husbands if they say They love you all?...” (I.i.95)

  8. Moral Allegory: Edgar • Represents soul • Suffers physical and psychological pain under the persona of ‘Poor Tom’ • Elements of nature become a source of pain as they create a character (Poor Tom) that is meant to suffer

  9. Moral Allegory: Edgar • “My face I’ll grime with filth, Blanket my loins, elf all my hair in knots, and presented with nakedness outface the winds and persecutions of the sky. The country give me proof and precedent of Bedlam beggars” (II, iii, 10)

  10. Social Allegory: Plot HIERCHACY and INDIVIDUALISM is an important extensive metaphor used for the plot •Constant battle between two groups • Individual interests vs. moral values -Who wins...? 21st century camparison • Quote: I.ii.6, 8, 18-19, 21-22 • I.i.50, 51, 53 from play

  11. Social Allegory: Lear • Lear represents government • Tries to balance power and humanism, but fails • Represents governments in the world that have had their citizens attempt to overthrow them Ex. Egyptian uprising of January 2011

  12. Social allegory: The Fool Pride of higher authority (Lear) creates rejection towards the help coming from a lower power (Fool). • “If I gave them all my living, I’d keep my coxcombs myself. There’s mine; beg another of thy daughters” (I, iv, 94) • “Take heed, sirrah, the whip” (I, iv, 96)

  13. Social allegory – The Fool

  14. Social Allegory: Cordelia • True humanity feels sorrow for their actions • “Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not” (IV.vii.69)

  15. Social Allegory: Regan & Goneril • The uncontrolable thirst for power is a destructive force that will always lead to one’s demise “By day and night he wrongs me. Every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other That sets us all the odds. I’ll not endure it” (I.iii.3)

  16. Social Allegory: Edgar • Humanism- human nature • Shows sympathy towards others • Expresses individualism through isolation (Bedlam Beggar), but his sympathy (human nature) re-establishes him into society

  17. Social Allegory: Edgar Edgar“My tears begin to take his part so much, They’ll mar my counterfeiting” Lear“The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch and Sweetheart- see, they bark at me” Edgar“Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt you curs!” (III, vi, 56-60)

  18. Religious Allegory: Plot Main idea in terms of religious allegory is “the punishment of the “higher power” to man kind” in reference to the religion of Islam •Mistakes • Consequences • Power and control of the “higher power” learning process--->realization--->punishment • Quote: III.ii.74 from play

  19. Religious Allegory: Plot "And He gives you all that you ask for. But if you count the favours of Allah, never will you be able to number them. Verily, man is given up to injustice and ingratitude." [Al-Qur'an 14:34] "Therefore remember Me, I will remember you, And be thankful to Me, and do not be ungrateful to Me." [Al-Qur'an 2:152] "Surely We have shown him the way: he may be thankful or unthankful." [Al-Qur'an 76:3]

  20. Religious Allegory: Plot • In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. • (O Prophet!) Tell those of My servants who believe that they should establish Prayer and spend out of what We have provided them with, both secretly and openly, before there arrives the Day when there will be no bargaining, nor any mutual befriending. (Al-Qur'an 14:31) • Surah At-Tauba, verse 103 of the Quran, Allah says: “Take alms from their wealth in order to purify them and sanctify them with it.”

  21. Religious Allegory: Lear • Lear represents spirituality • He relies upon gods and celestial bodies for support when enduring persecution • His journey through spiritual rebirth is an allegory for heaven and hell

  22. Religious Allegory: Lear • Descent into insanity represents Hell • His journey through the storm represents purgatory – paying for his sins, purifying his soul • Reconciliation with Cordelia and his eventual death, represents heaven

  23. Religious Allegory: The Fool Jesus (Fool) preaches in parables (riddles/songs), so the sinners (Lear) can understand better. • “When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?” (I, iv, 132)

  24. Religious allegory – The Fool “Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, nor do they understand” Matthew 13:13

  25. Religious Allegory: Cordelia • Cordelia represents direct connection to Christ in the play • Many themes, such as: • Innocence • Peace • Redemption Pietà

  26. Religious Allegory: Edgar • Christ-like figure • Edgar’s journey in the play parallel to journey of Jesus • BBC version of King Lear

  27. Religious Allegory: Edgar “ Poor Tom hath been scared out of his good wits: bless thee, good man’s son, from the foul fiend! Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once; of lust, as Obidicut; Hobbididance, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of stealing; Modo, of murder; and Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and mowing; who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women. So, bless thee, master!” (IV, i, 56)

  28. Bibliography Aljazeera. Timeline: Egypt's revolution. 14 February 2011. Article. 16 October 2012. Associated Press. Seoul: North Korea rejected its offer of flood aid. 12 September 2012. Article. 16 October 2012. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Pieta. 2012. Website. 16 October 2012. Johnston, Ian. Speak What We Feel: An Introduction to King Lear. 11 November 1999. Lecture. 16 October 2012. Shakespeare, William. King Lear. New York City: Spark Publishing, n.d. Book.

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