Introductions CONCLUSIONS Provides a synopsis of society and text Links to question and relevant texts Establish a main route for discussion CONCLUSIONS Stresses the importance of the thesis statement Gives the essay a sense of completeness Leaves a final impression on the reader

HOW TO UNPACK QUOTATIONS Black – AO1 | Blue – AO4 Audience sympathy? (AO3) Awarded AO1 marks for written communication and AO2 marks for convention analysis “Come not between the dragon and his wrath!” (page 166) Negative Imperative (AO1) masculine singular pronoun (AO1) Reference fatherly power over daughters (AO4) Metaphor Link to Shakespearian and patriarchal societies Link to fairy-tale like imagery, dragon is defensive of his princess?

HOW TO BLEND QUOTATIONS Recommended you do not begin a sentence with a quotation. Avoid, the quote “….” suggests… Use a connective beforehand (Alternatively, the use of [quote] suggests… Remember to analyse word class choice (nouns, adjectives?) and the effect it has on the audience. Use a comma before to separate the quotation with your text (the use of, “quote”) If the quote is lengthy, start a new line.

KING LEAR THEMES Justice Betrayal Conflict Reconciliation Madness Blindness

KING LEAR CHARACTERS

OEDIPUS SIMILARITIES (THEMES) King Lear Conflict “Ye sicken all, well wot I, yet my pain, How great soever yours, outtops it all." "You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face.(4.2.30) Betrayal “Behold the slayer of his sire, his mother's--' That shameful word my lips may not repeat” "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.(4.1.36) Madness “What pangs of agonizing memory?" "Who is it that can tell me who I am?“ – Lear (1.4.230) Sight and Blindness “soon ye shall behold a sight so sad That he who must abhorred would pity it." Gloucester "I stumbled when I saw" (4.1.20)

LITERARY THEORY Law and Love: The Trials of King Lear by Paul W. Kahn Legal implications of King Lear Incompatibility of the value of love with the laws of the state The Wheel of Fire by G. Wilson Knight Argues for a spacial examination of King Lear Shakespeare Our Contemporary by Jan Kott Examines the influence of Shakespeare and King Lear Examines the need for making the works have contemporary relevance.

CRITICS http://mrmorgans13english.pbworks.com/f/Bradley%20anti- subplot.pdf A.C Bradley – the sub-plot is a “defect” Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Lear combines length with rapidity” (http://king-lear.org/samuel_taylor_coleridge) Joseph Warton: King Lear is “too savage and shocking”

ACT ONE “Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth” [91] Characters Involved: - Kent - Gloucester - Lear - Edmund - France - Burgundy - Goneril - Regan - Cordelia “Come not between the dragon and his wrath! [123] “Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes” [94]

ACT ONE – SC2 (SUBPLOT) Characters Involved: - Edmund - Gloucester - Edgar Edmund reveals his undermining plan to rid the legitimate son Edgar from his father’s love and affection. This scene shows that his characters is dangerous, rebellious and sneaky.

Main themes: Conflict Betrayal ACT ONE – SC3 Characters Involved: - Regan - Goneril - Oswald - Lear Main themes: Conflict Betrayal

ACT ONE – SC4 Characters Involved: - Lear - Caius - Oswald - The Fool - Soliders

ACT ONE – SC5 Characters Involved: - Caius - Lear - Goneril

FAVOURITE QUOTATIONS (A1) Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. (1.1.36) Although the last, not least. (1.1.85) Nothing will come of nothing: speak again. (1.1.92) Come not between the dragon and his wrath. (1.1.124) Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes. (1.1.97) A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue That I am glad I have not, though not to have it Hath lost me in your liking. (1.1.230)

Favourite quotations (cont.) I grow, I prosper; Now, gods, stand up for bastards! (1.2.21) Pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy; my cue is villanous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. (1.2.150) Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest. (1.4.132) Who is it that can tell me who I am? (1.4.230) Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, Than the sea-monster. (1.4.283) How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! (1.4.312)

Love is not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from the entire point. (1.1.241) Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! (1.1.253) Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. (1.1.302) Striving to better, oft we mar what ’s well. (1.4.346) O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! (1.5.51)

STRUCTURE AO2 http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2869365?uid=3738032& uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21103709580637