Being a king is not necessarily will guarantee a blissful life till the end of your life. Why did I say this ? Because I take King Lear as an example, just because one mistake that he did he suffered at the end of his life. He dares to divide his kingdom to his children and as ahuman being, of course the daughters became greedy. Ignoring him and letting him go senile, the daughters had done their best to push their father away.
However, I do believe in the play, the daughters, Goneril, and Regan had their fair share when they died in the end. This shows that only bad things will happen to us if we did bad things to others.
AND IN THE END I FINISHED ANOTHER PLAY WITH MY BELOVED LECTURER!!YAHOO.....
However, I do believe in the play, the daughters, Goneril, and Regan had their fair share when they died in the end. This shows that only bad things will happen to us if we did bad things to others.
AND IN THE END I FINISHED ANOTHER PLAY WITH MY BELOVED LECTURER!!YAHOO.....
2 comments:
I totally agree with you Rahimah! What is there in position or wealth when your own children cannot appreciate you? I sympathize with King Lear for being blind about his daughters but who could guess. So it is not his fault. I would like to share with you one of the commandments in Bible, which goes, 'Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.' It has been stated that whoever do the things like Goneril and Regan, they will never have a happy life and in this case they died.
Yes, I also feel excited to learn about this play with Dr. Edwin. My first further studies on Shakespearean play in my life would be King Lear which I feel quite “pathetic” but grateful to actually have the chance to read Shakespearean play at advanced level. From the information I had, the story is borrowed from few different stories; The True Chronicle history of King Leir and his Three Daughters, Chronicle of England, Scotland and Ireland, The Faerie Queenee, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia and A Mirror for Magistrates. Shakespeare creates King Lear out of the collected pieces of ideas from those stories. What I like most about King Lear is that the cursive point of where Lear plays a “childish game” inquiring this very important line to his three daughters, “Which of you shall we say doth love us most?” Here, Lear goes against the nature and he is seen to be unnatural as for parent to ask their children to forfeit their love. Shakespeare has actually done well in depicting Lear’s tragic flaw – arrogant, which later brings him to the reversal of fortune as the two daughters who confess their to him have actually disowns him as the story unfolds.
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