1. Power Structures in Lear
Structures of power are intrinsic to the play King Lear and its function as a seventeenth century power play. ... Lear has given away his position of power, but still hangs onto the symbols of power, such as the company of knights. ... He begins to understand his mistakes and the faults he has made by abusing his power and sabotaging the power structure of the kingdom. ... Cornwall, Edmund, Gonerill and Regan begin with lack of power and rise to power. ... As Shakespeare and the Elizabethans saw it, by these women corrupting the structure of power and the natural order of society's fu...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate