Watch this scene. Why is this scene sad. Identify where this scene is taken from. What is the dramatic significance of this scene?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pky1BVTEJm8. Which movie version do you prefer.
This scene is sad because we see Cordelia forgive her father after all he has done to her. With tears she forgives him when he asked her to forgive and forget.This scene is taken from Act 4 and 5. The dramatic significance of this scene is that it shows to the audience the audience the level of frogiveness on the part of Cordelia.She forgives King Lear after he has ill treated her and sent her out of his kingdom.This scence portrays to the audience which of Lear's daughter really loves and it is a fitting conclusion to the first scene.
This scene is act 4-5. This is one of the most tragic scenes throughout the play. After all that the foolish king (Lear) has done to his daughter Cordelia who truly loved him of all his daughter, she found it in her heart to forgive him and it was she that stood by his side now during his mental break down. However, this scene is very significant because it illustrates to the audience that of all Lear's daughters, Cordelia the youngest, was the only one who wasn't after his riches and she truly loved him and was easily willing to forgive him despite the cruel way in which he treated her when she did not met his demand (Of flattering words to profess her love for the king, her father).
According to ‘Penguin Popular Classics: King Lear’ (1994), this part of the play is a mixture of Act 4 Scene 7, Act 5 Scene 2 and Act 5 Scene 3. The movie scene was ultimately melancholic with the given fact that the ‘old and foolish’ Lear has asked for forgiveness from her faithful and loyal daughter, Cordelia, for his unwise choice to abandon all fatherly privileges towards her. Cordelia, being the warm hearted and caring one out of all the daughters, has forgiven her father. As a matter of fact she never held any grudge against her father and this was depicted when her father remorsefully stated that she has ‘some cause’ to do him ‘wrong’ [to betray him], however, she denied by saying: ‘No cause, no cause’. Furthermore, this is dramatically significant as Lear becomes guilty and asks Cordelia for forgiveness which she unhesitatingly grants. Cordelia is the daughter who truthfully loves her father and although her father treated her bad she still illustrated affection towards him when he most needed comfort: ‘O my dear father, restoration hang/Thy medicine on my lips, and let this kiss/Repair those violent harms, that my two sisters/Have in thy reverence made.’
My apologies for entering my input this late...I've had some difficulties and was unable to comment sooner than now..I will be adding my work in short order...i'm really sorry if i caused any inconvenience..
The scene is taken from the infamous Shakespearean literary work and art form, "King Lear". It was a superb play, rather interesting and filled with much conflict and much events to keep the mind in complete suspense. As my colleague Franchesca previous stipulated. The scenes found in this small theatrical excerpt are: Act 4 Scene 7, Act 5 Scene 2 and Act 5 Scene 3 respectively..
Entirely i found the mixture of the scenes to be quite dismal and in some small senses joyous. I will explain...Dismal (which is a bigger word for sad or melancholy)--were the scenes because here everything that took place throughout the entire play boiled down to the once mighty and powerful King Lear, now reduced to a somewhat insane old man begging for forgiveness from a daughter he so wickedly casted away. It was also quite heart wrenching because though Cordelia had been subjected to much ridicule at the hands of her father, her tears proved that though she had suffered a great deal she was still ready an willing to forgive because of the unconditional love she had for King Lear... It was joyous because because anything that entails forgiveness is always joyous especially on the part of the individual who is seeking forgiveness... The dramatic significance found in this is filled with irony--and it is important because it shows how one minute King Lear was the richest and most powerful in all the land and as previously mentioned..now he was reduced to nothing and was even worse off than the normal poor man...(this is how it is ironical). The dramatic significance would be to show how situation can easily change--negatively for people who do wrong (king lear)--and positively for people who are wronged (cordelia).
This scene contains a mixture of emotions as here marks the internal conflict outrightly being faced in the play. The scenes evident here are Act4:7 and Act 5:2-3. The sadness can therefore be divided into 3 parts. In Act4:7 it marks the reunion of King lear and Cordelia. It is a melancholy moment as we see that King Lear admits that he is going insane. He feels that Cordelia does not love him as she has good reason not to for the ill-treatment sh received for being honest. Cordelia is heartbroken as she cannot bear to see her father in this condition and her love still shows through despite the ominous circumstances of the situation. King Lear cannot bear the weight of the fact that he has done nothing to his eldest, yet they betrayed him like serpants. He asks forgiveness from Cordelia and this maps the sadness of this scene. Act 5:2 shows Gloucester now blind, being led by his true son. This is ironic and he can be compared to King Lear as he thought that his true child's love was fiendish and the wicked one was the true love. He is left to his own whimsical means and has to be led by he who he thought had betrayed him and one's heart goes out to him as he seems pitiful in a sense. The last scene is a scene of mixed emotions as one sees that Cordelia is the one who lashes out in rage and despair at her evil sisters. King Lear however is happy as he has been reunited with Cordelia and is happy as he has one true daughter who loves him. He is in such glee that he even mentions being happy in prison to catch up on old times lost, past memories but only happy ones even though they are being taken to their doom. This scene is dramatically significant as it is at the height of the climax in the play where one sees Cordelia and King Lear being reunited and them being taken to their doom. It leaves the question to be asked as to: what is going to happen next? The preferred version of the movie is the black version as the characters are more realistic and the acting is far better.
The scene was taken from Act 4 scene 7 and Act 5 scene 2 and 3. Act 4 is said to be sad because at this point in the play the tables have turned. King Lear had gone out of his mind-ran mad. He had been unconscious and could not even remember his own daughter’s face, much less the place that he had slept the night before. He was now stripped of everything that he once called his own. He has given away his kingdom and he was now left with nothing. His daughters Goneril and Regan have both turned their backs on him, but Cordelia, the faithful one, the daughter that he mistreated and disowned was there to rescue him from himself. King Lear was so blinded by his other two daughters that he could not see the true love that Cordelia held in her heart for him. Now, that he has realized his mistake, Lear was ashamed to even be in the presence of his daughter Cordelia, he felt that her kindness was undeserving. This scene is sad because it illustrates sympathy, forgiveness and love. In addition, Act 5 scene 2 sad because here, it is seen that Gloucester is in severe pain and suffering because of the loss of both of his eyes. He had paid the cost for something of which he was unaware. After going to assist the King in battle, Edgar returned with saddening news that the King had lost and was captured, along with his daughter Cordelia. Here, Gloucester was at the point of giving up and has asked Edgar to leave him where he was, so that he may die. The hopelessness of this scene brings out its sadness. Moreover, Act 5 scene 3, although sad because of the King and Cordelia’s state of imprisonment, there is also some signs of happiness. King Lear is happy to be reunited with his daughter and is willing to die or even spend the rest of eternity in prison with her-as long as they are together and enjoy each other’s presence. Not knowing what their final fate is going to be, Lear gives a carefree attitude to the surrounding situation. He is just grateful to have his daughter Cordelia at his side, once again. The scenes are said to be dramatically significant because it illustrates the highest point in the play, where things took a drastic change.
This scene is taken from Act 4-5. This seen is sad because it shows the first encounter between Cordelia and King Lear after Lear banished her from his kingdom. Inspite of how Lear treated Cordelia, she found it in her heart to forgive him. King Lear is now able to see which of his daughters had really loved him the most. The dramatic significance of this scene is to cause the audience to feel sympathetic towards Lear and Cordelia. This is the climax in the play because it shows the reuniting and the bound formed between Lear and Cordelia again.
This scene is quite sad and touching, the love that transpired between Cordelia and her father gave way to the sad effect and touching scene. This was so as Lear had dismiss Cordelia as his daughter yet at the end of it all Cordelia was the one who stcuk by his side. She did not care that he had once disowned her, all she cared about was his physical, emotional and mental care. She wanted him to be happy and felt the pain that he was going through in these difficult times.This showed the bond between Lear and Cordelia.
This however was not the only sad part in the scene, the other was with glucester. In the war Gloucester was on the ground crying out.His cries were cries of worries frustration and most of all sadness. Gloucester basically came to nothing, he lost practically the most thing that a man ought to treasure(apart from life, health and family) his sight. Not being able to see Gluocester felt hopeless, he felt that life was just not worth living anymore. Also his son who betrayed him and his companions as well, could not have helped more in bringing the old man down more. This is sad for Gloucester was a good man a man of honour, yet this evil happened to him by his own flesh and blood. Also the way his son Edgar helped him was sad indeed. This is so as Gloucester wanted to capture his son for he was tricked by Edmund into believing that Edgar wanted to kill him.
These two stories Lear and Cordelia and Gloucester and Edgar came from a mixture of scene's they are Act 4 scene 5 and Act 5 scene 2 and 3. The dramatic significance of the scenes is to alert the audience of the climax which was at its highest point and to show the love between the two and also that you must always be careful with the decisions you make in life, as you never know what will be the outcome of the decisions being made.
Out of the two King Lear's the one that would be most outstanding in every way would probably be the black version as the characters seem to make the play as realistic as much as possible as they seem to have a more passionate way of portraying their feelings in the play. SHEMEZ BROWNE
This scene is sad becuase it portrayed what king Lear had missed out on because he would not realize who really loved him. It is not flatteringly composed speeches which exhibit a persons love for you, but it is the simple sometimes unsaid things. Things like caring and honesty(even in the face of possible rejection). It should also ideally be immaterial in nature. It is sad that the King had to go through all this and reach to such a low point in his life for him to realize this. The video is a superb compilation of Act 4 Scene 7, Act 5 Scene 2 and Act 5 Scene 3. The dramatic significance of this is that it is a resolution to the conflict which erupted very early on the drama when Lear disowned Cordelia. It also provides a true image of love personified in Cordelia in contrast to that of Reagan and Goneril.
This Scene is extremely sad since we know what had taken place between King Lear and Cordelia. We know that at the beginning of the play she was his favorite daughter but striped her of any inheritance simply because she failed to flatter him with cheap words like her other conniving sisters Gonril and Regan. He then drove her from his kingdom and shared it among her two sisters and himself. This scene also enables readers/ viewers to truly see the goodness of Cordelia and what sets her apart from her evil sisters whose only intention thought the whole book was greed for material things and the betrayal of their father, to the point where they drove him to madness. The dramatic significance of his scene is to not only highlight King Lear’s wicked treatment and the guilt he felt towards Cordelia but also to emphasized Cordelia’s love for her father to the point where after all he had done to her she still forgave him.
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FROM WATCHING THE SCENE I WOULD SAY IT IS SAD SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION INVOLVED WHERE EVEN AFTER KING LEAR HAD BANISHED CORDELIA FROM HIS CASTLE SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE HAD TOLD HIM THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW SHE FELT ABOUT HIM AND HE WAS LOOKING FOR FLATTERY, IT WAS STILL SHE WHO CAME TO HIM IN HIS TIME OF DISTRESS WHEN GONERIL AND REGAN HAD BEGUN NEGLECTING HIM.EVEN THOUGH HE DROVE HER AWAY AND WAS SO WICKED IN DOING SO CORDELIA NEVER CEASED TO LOVE HIM AS HER FATHER AT THE SAME TIME STILL NOT WANTING ANY OF HIS WEALTH;HIS LOVE WAS ALL SHE CARED FOR.Hence, it can be said that the dramatic significance is the way in which this conflict between cordelia and lear was dealt with where cordelia still comes to her father's rescue even after the pain of banishing her caused primarily by him.this was quite sad as well as touching.
ALSO THIS SCENE BEING COMMENTED ON IS FRON ACT 4 AND 5 IT WAS SADTO KNOW THAT THE ONE HE THOUGHT LOVED HIM THE LEAST AND THE ONE HE CARED FOR LESS WAS ACTUALLY THE ONE TO COME TO HIS RESCUE IN HIS MOST CRITICAL TIME THAT IS IN DISTRESS.THE SAYING IS REALLY TRUE THAT THE MORE YOU LOOK THE LESS YOU SEE IN THIS SITUATION THE KING JUST WANTED TO HEAR ALL THE FLATTERING THINGS THAT GONERIL AND REGAN HAD TO SAY RATHER THAN THE TRUTH AND HE PRAISED THEM BECAUSE THEY FLATTERED HIM AND LOOKED DOWN ON CORDELIA BECAUSE SHE HAD LESS TO SAY THAN THEY DID. CLYDECIA
The beginning of this scene starts out on a very sad note. King Lear is found by Cordelia in a foolish state, he is not in his right mind. He is in such a confused state that he believes that his visions of Cordelia (his daughter) are not real. His illusion may be created from Lear’s guilt of banishing his daughter and or of the torment he went through. This scene hits straight home and spring the feelings of sadness because the truth, although prevailed in the end is only revealed through such bad circumstances. King Lear had to be humiliated and disgraced and lost his kingdom in order to see the pureness or truth of his daughters. Also the duke had to lose his eyes sight which is ironic in order to (see) the hearts of his sons, and true character of Edgar his son. Another reason why this scene is mostly sad is of a fathers desperate pleas to hang on to his daughter, Lear’s wilful disillusion of happiness with Cordelia is pitiful and sad and shows how much he loves and want to savour his last moments he has with her. Shenice, Adama
This is a Scene recognized in 'King Lear.' This is a Shakespearean novel which entail a numerous amount of relationship between families.The Acts used to incorporate the video is Act 4 Scene7, Act 5 Scene 2 and Act 5 Scene3. This will justify all the emotion felt in the video by the two main characters which were emphasized upon.All the Acts used relates to each other in every way which very creatively done. In Act 4 Scene 7 Cordelia came in not knowing what to expect that she looked scared and afraid for him. King Lear is weak, delusional and unaware of who Cordelia is. He sees her as a spirit because he is in the form of insanity, Lear is not even aware of the time of day. He admits that he was tricked.He even tries to feel if his hands are his, by pricking them. Cordelia weeps trying to understand her father by consoling with him and kneeling but he thinks she makes fun of him when she is not. He admits his flaws and his partial insanity along with his old age.Lear began to recognize the people who loves him. He know he was wrong for disowning Cordelia and wishes for her to kill him("If you have Poison for me, I'll drink it")because he know he is guilty of doing so and realizes that she love him. Lear is seen to be a shamed for his doings which are judging a book by its cover even though he knew what the book contained.He declares his mistake and asked Cordelia to forgive him in his time of need which was very ironic. However in Act 5 Scene 2, Gloucester was given the news of King Lear's capture by Edgar who came to his rescue and told him that one can't choose their death nor birth and they only thing one can do is endure either one when time comes. It is sad that on the verge of death and blind Gloucester is willing to give up because he felt that all hope was gone and it takes the hero which is Edgar to save him. While Act 5 Scene 3 Cordelia and Lear is imprisoned. Cordelia wishes to see her sisters but Lear tells her no. He sympathizes with her to let her feel good that they have a lot to look forward too, no matter the circumstances faced they will try to find the happiness in everything that are thrown at them and because of this many will come and leave and they will still be there. King Lear embraces his daughter as a father embraces a child in time of need and despair. The dramatic significance of the scene is ironic because King Lear had abandon his child and in the end she was the one who was there for him. It is also the highest point in the where King Lear admits his fault and begs for forgiveness. It also helps the audience to sympathize with him because he really was a lost man who lost everything and in the end earned his daughter's trust. Even Gloucester too had disowned his first child and ironically was saved by him. The Fathers in this play were very pitiful cause they were blinded by evil doers that the question is "do they know the difference between truth and lies or Love and hate?" I like this scene better than the other scenes because Cordelia is very dramatic and The black version of King Lear sweats too much. This scene add to the suspense of what will happen next.
This scene is sad because we see Cordelia forgive her father after all he has done to her. With tears she forgives him when he asked her to forgive and forget.This scene is taken from Act 4 and 5. The dramatic significance of this scene is that it shows to the audience the audience the level of frogiveness on the part of Cordelia.She forgives King Lear after he has ill treated her and sent her out of his kingdom.This scence portrays to the audience which of Lear's daughter really loves and it is a fitting conclusion to the first scene.
ReplyDeleteThis scene is act 4-5. This is one of the most tragic scenes throughout the play. After all that the foolish king (Lear) has done to his daughter Cordelia who truly loved him of all his daughter, she found it in her heart to forgive him and it was she that stood by his side now during his mental break down.
ReplyDeleteHowever, this scene is very significant because it illustrates to the audience that of all Lear's daughters, Cordelia the youngest, was the only one who wasn't after his riches and she truly loved him and was easily willing to forgive him despite the cruel way in which he treated her when she did not met his demand (Of flattering words to profess her love for the king, her father).
This scene is sad because Cordelia sympathized with her father and found it in her heart to forgive him when he asked her to desperately.
ReplyDeleteAccording to ‘Penguin Popular Classics: King Lear’ (1994), this part of the play is a mixture of Act 4 Scene 7, Act 5 Scene 2 and Act 5 Scene 3. The movie scene was ultimately melancholic with the given fact that the ‘old and foolish’ Lear has asked for forgiveness from her faithful and loyal daughter, Cordelia, for his unwise choice to abandon all fatherly privileges towards her. Cordelia, being the warm hearted and caring one out of all the daughters, has forgiven her father. As a matter of fact she never held any grudge against her father and this was depicted when her father remorsefully stated that she has ‘some cause’ to do him ‘wrong’ [to betray him], however, she denied by saying: ‘No cause, no cause’. Furthermore, this is dramatically significant as Lear becomes guilty and asks Cordelia for forgiveness which she unhesitatingly grants. Cordelia is the daughter who truthfully loves her father and although her father treated her bad she still illustrated affection towards him when he most needed comfort: ‘O my dear father, restoration hang/Thy medicine on my lips, and let this kiss/Repair those violent harms, that my two sisters/Have in thy reverence made.’
ReplyDeleteMy apologies for entering my input this late...I've had some difficulties and was unable to comment sooner than now..I will be adding my work in short order...i'm really sorry if i caused any inconvenience..
ReplyDeleteThe scene is taken from the infamous Shakespearean literary work and art form, "King Lear". It was a superb play, rather interesting and filled with much conflict and much events to keep the mind in complete suspense. As my colleague Franchesca previous stipulated. The scenes found in this small theatrical excerpt are: Act 4 Scene 7, Act 5 Scene 2 and Act 5 Scene 3 respectively..
ReplyDeleteEntirely i found the mixture of the scenes to be quite dismal and in some small senses joyous. I will explain...Dismal (which is a bigger word for sad or melancholy)--were the scenes because here everything that took place throughout the entire play boiled down to the once mighty and powerful King Lear, now reduced to a somewhat insane old man begging for forgiveness from a daughter he so wickedly casted away. It was also quite heart wrenching because though Cordelia had been subjected to much ridicule at the hands of her father, her tears proved that though she had suffered a great deal she was still ready an willing to forgive because of the unconditional love she had for King Lear...
It was joyous because because anything that entails forgiveness is always joyous especially on the part of the individual who is seeking forgiveness...
The dramatic significance found in this is filled with irony--and it is important because it shows how one minute King Lear was the richest and most powerful in all the land and as previously mentioned..now he was reduced to nothing and was even worse off than the normal poor man...(this is how it is ironical). The dramatic significance would be to show how situation can easily change--negatively for people who do wrong (king lear)--and positively for people who are wronged (cordelia).
This scene contains a mixture of emotions as here marks the internal conflict outrightly being faced in the play. The scenes evident here are Act4:7 and Act 5:2-3. The sadness can therefore be divided into 3 parts.
ReplyDeleteIn Act4:7 it marks the reunion of King lear and Cordelia. It is a melancholy moment as we see that King Lear admits that he is going insane. He feels that Cordelia does not love him as she has good reason not to for the ill-treatment sh received for being honest. Cordelia is heartbroken as she cannot bear to see her father in this condition and her love still shows through despite the ominous circumstances of the situation. King Lear cannot bear the weight of the fact that he has done nothing to his eldest, yet they betrayed him like serpants. He asks forgiveness from Cordelia and this maps the sadness of this scene.
Act 5:2 shows Gloucester now blind, being led by his true son. This is ironic and he can be compared to King Lear as he thought that his true child's love was fiendish and the wicked one was the true love. He is left to his own whimsical means and has to be led by he who he thought had betrayed him and one's heart goes out to him as he seems pitiful in a sense.
The last scene is a scene of mixed emotions as one sees that Cordelia is the one who lashes out in rage and despair at her evil sisters. King Lear however is happy as he has been reunited with Cordelia and is happy as he has one true daughter who loves him. He is in such glee that he even mentions being happy in prison to catch up on old times lost, past memories but only happy ones even though they are being taken to their doom.
This scene is dramatically significant as it is at the height of the climax in the play where one sees Cordelia and King Lear being reunited and them being taken to their doom. It leaves the question to be asked as to: what is going to happen next? The preferred version of the movie is the black version as the characters are more realistic and the acting is far better.
The scene was taken from Act 4 scene 7 and Act 5 scene 2 and 3. Act 4 is said to be sad because at this point in the play the tables have turned. King Lear had gone out of his mind-ran mad. He had been unconscious and could not even remember his own daughter’s face, much less the place that he had slept the night before. He was now stripped of everything that he once called his own. He has given away his kingdom and he was now left with nothing. His daughters Goneril and Regan have both turned their backs on him, but Cordelia, the faithful one, the daughter that he mistreated and disowned was there to rescue him from himself. King Lear was so blinded by his other two daughters that he could not see the true love that Cordelia held in her heart for him. Now, that he has realized his mistake, Lear was ashamed to even be in the presence of his daughter Cordelia, he felt that her kindness was undeserving. This scene is sad because it illustrates sympathy, forgiveness and love.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, Act 5 scene 2 sad because here, it is seen that Gloucester is in severe pain and suffering because of the loss of both of his eyes. He had paid the cost for something of which he was unaware. After going to assist the King in battle, Edgar returned with saddening news that the King had lost and was captured, along with his daughter Cordelia. Here, Gloucester was at the point of giving up and has asked Edgar to leave him where he was, so that he may die. The hopelessness of this scene brings out its sadness.
Moreover, Act 5 scene 3, although sad because of the King and Cordelia’s state of imprisonment, there is also some signs of happiness. King Lear is happy to be reunited with his daughter and is willing to die or even spend the rest of eternity in prison with her-as long as they are together and enjoy each other’s presence. Not knowing what their final fate is going to be, Lear gives a carefree attitude to the surrounding situation. He is just grateful to have his daughter Cordelia at his side, once again.
The scenes are said to be dramatically significant because it illustrates the highest point in the play, where things took a drastic change.
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ReplyDeleteThis scene is taken from Act 4-5. This seen is sad because it shows the first encounter between Cordelia and King Lear after Lear banished her from his kingdom. Inspite of how Lear treated Cordelia, she found it in her heart to forgive him. King Lear is now able to see which of his daughters had really loved him the most. The dramatic significance of this scene is to cause the audience to feel sympathetic towards Lear and Cordelia. This is the climax in the play because it shows the reuniting and the bound formed between Lear and Cordelia again.
ReplyDeleteThis scene is quite sad and touching, the love that transpired between Cordelia and her father gave way to the sad effect and touching scene. This was so as Lear had dismiss Cordelia as his daughter yet at the end of it all Cordelia was the one who stcuk by his side. She did not care that he had once disowned her, all she cared about was his physical, emotional and mental care. She wanted him to be happy and felt the pain that he was going through in these difficult times.This showed the bond between Lear and Cordelia.
ReplyDeleteThis however was not the only sad part in the scene, the other was with glucester. In the war Gloucester was on the ground crying out.His cries were cries of worries frustration and most of all sadness. Gloucester basically came to nothing, he lost practically the most thing that a man ought to treasure(apart from life, health and family) his sight. Not being able to see Gluocester felt hopeless, he felt that life was just not worth living anymore. Also his son who betrayed him and his companions as well, could not have helped more in bringing the old man down more. This is sad for Gloucester was a good man a man of honour, yet this evil happened to him by his own flesh and blood. Also the way his son Edgar helped him was sad indeed. This is so as Gloucester wanted to capture his son for he was tricked by Edmund into believing that Edgar wanted to kill him.
These two stories Lear and Cordelia and Gloucester and Edgar came from a mixture of scene's they are Act 4 scene 5 and Act 5 scene 2 and 3. The dramatic significance of the scenes is to alert the audience of the climax which was at its highest point and to show the love between the two and also that you must always be careful with the decisions you make in life, as you never know what will be the outcome of the decisions being made.
Out of the two King Lear's the one that would be most outstanding in every way would probably be the black version as the characters seem to make the play as realistic as much as possible as they seem to have a more passionate way of portraying their feelings in the play.
SHEMEZ BROWNE
This scene is sad becuase it portrayed what king Lear had missed out on because he would not realize who really loved him. It is not flatteringly composed speeches which exhibit a persons love for you, but it is the simple sometimes unsaid things. Things like caring and honesty(even in the face of possible rejection). It should also ideally be immaterial in nature.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad that the King had to go through all this and reach to such a low point in his life for him to realize this.
The video is a superb compilation of Act 4 Scene 7, Act 5 Scene 2 and Act 5 Scene 3.
The dramatic significance of this is that it is a resolution to the conflict which erupted very early on the drama when Lear disowned Cordelia. It also provides a true image of love personified in Cordelia in contrast to that of Reagan and Goneril.
Roland Moore
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ReplyDeleteThis Scene is extremely sad since we know what had taken place between King Lear and Cordelia. We know that at the beginning of the play she was his favorite daughter but striped her of any inheritance simply because she failed to flatter him with cheap words like her other conniving sisters Gonril and Regan. He then drove her from his kingdom and shared it among her two sisters and himself.
ReplyDeleteThis scene also enables readers/ viewers to truly see the goodness of Cordelia and what sets her apart from her evil sisters whose only intention thought the whole book was greed for material things and the betrayal of their father, to the point where they drove him to madness. The dramatic significance of his scene is to not only highlight King Lear’s wicked treatment and the guilt he felt towards Cordelia but also to emphasized Cordelia’s love for her father to the point where after all he had done to her she still forgave him.
I TOO APOLOGIZE FOR MY LATE COMMENT BUT I HAD NO ACCESS TO THE INTERNET.
ReplyDeleteFROM WATCHING THE SCENE I WOULD SAY IT IS SAD SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION INVOLVED WHERE EVEN AFTER KING LEAR HAD BANISHED CORDELIA FROM HIS CASTLE SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE HAD TOLD HIM THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW SHE FELT ABOUT HIM AND HE WAS LOOKING FOR FLATTERY, IT WAS STILL SHE WHO CAME TO HIM IN HIS TIME OF DISTRESS WHEN GONERIL AND REGAN HAD BEGUN NEGLECTING HIM.EVEN THOUGH HE DROVE HER AWAY AND WAS SO WICKED IN DOING SO CORDELIA NEVER CEASED TO LOVE HIM AS HER FATHER AT THE SAME TIME STILL NOT WANTING ANY OF HIS WEALTH;HIS LOVE WAS ALL SHE CARED FOR.Hence, it can be said that the dramatic significance is the way in which this conflict between cordelia and lear was dealt with where cordelia still comes to her father's rescue even after the pain of banishing her caused primarily by him.this was quite sad as well as touching.
CLYDECIA MOORE
ReplyDeleteALSO THIS SCENE BEING COMMENTED ON IS FRON ACT 4 AND 5 IT WAS SADTO KNOW THAT THE ONE HE THOUGHT LOVED HIM THE LEAST AND THE ONE HE CARED FOR LESS WAS ACTUALLY THE ONE TO COME TO HIS RESCUE IN HIS MOST CRITICAL TIME THAT IS IN DISTRESS.THE SAYING IS REALLY TRUE THAT THE MORE YOU LOOK THE LESS YOU SEE IN THIS SITUATION THE KING JUST WANTED TO HEAR ALL THE FLATTERING THINGS THAT GONERIL AND REGAN HAD TO SAY RATHER THAN THE TRUTH AND HE PRAISED THEM BECAUSE THEY FLATTERED HIM AND LOOKED DOWN ON CORDELIA BECAUSE SHE HAD LESS TO SAY THAN THEY DID.
ReplyDeleteCLYDECIA
The beginning of this scene starts out on a very sad note. King Lear is found by Cordelia in a foolish state, he is not in his right mind. He is in such a confused state that he believes that his visions of Cordelia (his daughter) are not real. His illusion may be created from Lear’s guilt of banishing his daughter and or of the torment he went through.
ReplyDeleteThis scene hits straight home and spring the feelings of sadness because the truth, although prevailed in the end is only revealed through such bad circumstances. King Lear had to be humiliated and disgraced and lost his kingdom in order to see the pureness or truth of his daughters.
Also the duke had to lose his eyes sight which is ironic in order to (see) the hearts of his sons, and true character of Edgar his son.
Another reason why this scene is mostly sad is of a fathers desperate pleas to hang on to his daughter, Lear’s wilful disillusion of happiness with Cordelia is pitiful and sad and shows how much he loves and want to savour his last moments he has with her.
Shenice, Adama
This is a Scene recognized in 'King Lear.' This is a Shakespearean novel which entail a numerous amount of relationship between families.The Acts used to incorporate the video is Act 4 Scene7, Act 5 Scene 2 and Act 5 Scene3. This will justify all the emotion felt in the video by the two main characters which were emphasized upon.All the Acts used relates to each other in every way which very creatively done.
ReplyDeleteIn Act 4 Scene 7 Cordelia came in not knowing what to expect that she looked scared and afraid for him. King Lear is weak, delusional and unaware of who Cordelia is. He sees her as a spirit because he is in the form of insanity, Lear is not even aware of the time of day. He admits that he was tricked.He even tries to feel if his hands are his, by pricking them. Cordelia weeps trying to understand her father by consoling with him and kneeling but he thinks she makes fun of him when she is not. He admits his flaws and his partial insanity along with his old age.Lear began to recognize the people who loves him. He know he was wrong for disowning Cordelia and wishes for her to kill him("If you have Poison for me, I'll drink it")because he know he is guilty of doing so and realizes that she love him. Lear is seen to be a shamed for his doings which are judging a book by its cover even though he knew what the book contained.He declares his mistake and asked Cordelia to forgive him in his time of need which was very ironic.
However in Act 5 Scene 2, Gloucester was given the news of King Lear's capture by Edgar who came to his rescue and told him that one can't choose their death nor birth and they only thing one can do is endure either one when time comes. It is sad that on the verge of death and blind Gloucester is willing to give up because he felt that all hope was gone and it takes the hero which is Edgar to save him.
While Act 5 Scene 3 Cordelia and Lear is imprisoned. Cordelia wishes to see her sisters but Lear tells her no. He sympathizes with her to let her feel good that they have a lot to look forward too, no matter the circumstances faced they will try to find the happiness in everything that are thrown at them and because of this many will come and leave and they will still be there. King Lear embraces his daughter as a father embraces a child in time of need and despair.
The dramatic significance of the scene is ironic because King Lear had abandon his child and in the end she was the one who was there for him. It is also the highest point in the where King Lear admits his fault and begs for forgiveness. It also helps the audience to sympathize with him because he really was a lost man who lost everything and in the end earned his daughter's trust. Even Gloucester too had disowned his first child and ironically was saved by him. The Fathers in this play were very pitiful cause they were blinded by evil doers that the question is "do they know the difference between truth and lies or Love and hate?"
I like this scene better than the other scenes because Cordelia is very dramatic and The black version of King Lear sweats too much. This scene add to the suspense of what will happen next.