Shakespeare's Four Great Tragedies: The Most Compelling and Coldest Reflections on Human Suffering
A vast microcosm of the human mind, shaped by betrayal, jealousy, hatred, desire, and the conflict between love and language.
The greatest achievement of Western literature, comparable to Sophocles' Antigone and the Bible's Book of Job.
“Wail, howl! O you stone men! If I had your eyes and your tongues,
“I will cry and break down.”
Lear misunderstood Cordelia's love, and the love and beauty that started the separation between Lear and Cordelia
The polarization between the two gives rise to a series of polarizations between political order and disorder, good and evil, justice and injustice.
It causes a storm in the natural world and madness in Lear's inner world.
But in the middle of the play,
All this chaos and confusion is an extension of the ontological confusion caused by Lear's concept of love.
It can be said that these are the chapters and their external expressions.
The dramatic relationship between Lear and Cordelia that appears in the latter half of the play
Forgiveness and reconciliation are also results of love.
But this meeting is one-sided, momentary, and incomplete.
This ultimately leads to Cordelia's death and Lear's hope of sharing a happy life with Cordelia.
ends with his desperate death.
In this way, love flows throughout King Lear and takes on all kinds of forms.
It is the source of the dichotomous conflict of the fetus and the dramatic emptiness of Qatar that we see at the end of the play.
It acts as the root cause of bringing about the Sith.
─ Choi Jong-cheol, from “Commentary on the Work”
▶ If we are destined to lose all his plays except one, it is the one that knows him best.
Most people who read it will want to keep King Lear.
─ A.
C. Bradley
▶ Lear is the most majestic and overwhelming character among those portrayed by Shakespeare.
that
No one in the play represents such absolute authority as Lear.
─ Harold Bloom
▶ A fierce battle between the curse and the clod of passion.
─ John Keats