Monday, April 4, 2011

3/1 - Class Notes

- King Lear

  • The ailing king:
    • James G. Frazer - conflict between kings of golden bough, old challenge young
    • King Lear - egotist, restricted consciousness
  • What do you do with the old?
  • What happens when ego is divided?
  • Edmund - demythologized = villian
- How much depends on nothing? - Fredrick Turner

- What does it mean to be natural? 
  • "Nature" to Edmund = survival of the fittest
- "It is never the worst as long as you can say it is the worst."

- Function of the fool?
  • Teach Lear who he is? 
- Albany = not good or bad, acts as a sponge

- Flyting: exchange of terms of abuse

- Patience
  • Job, King Lear, Brothers Karamazov
 

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