When you read a text you can know if it attracts the reader attention or not, or if it’s important. In that, we know that text has authority and linked to the concept of canon. So what is authority mean? and how the scholarship is defined it, and what is the origin of the concept of a canon?, and its characteristic features, and how we know if the text has authority and were defined as a canonical piece of writing through it is content and form, so in this essay I am going to discuss these meaning. Therefore, by referring to a literary works who gained the authority and the concept of being a canonical piece, so I have chosen the play which has authority and gained the literary canon on it, the play is King Lear written by William Shakespeare
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‘’Authority is mean a power to enforce obedience or power to influence actions, beliefs, and opinion’’ “Canons and Classics in Literature” , but this means it does not refer only to power it is also referred to a person or group of people who exercise that power. We know that the word authority refers to the term ( ‘’reception studies’’ which means the study of the reuse and reconfiguration of classical literature, art and ideas by later artists and thinkers through generations) “Canons and Classics in Literature” . Such as King Lear it is written in 1608 while the novel A Thousand Acres by Jane wrote in 1991.
Canon have the weight of public scholarship and have educational authority behind it, the industry of canon come through knowledge and interpretations, canon have in general many characteristic features that related to it such as the use of speeches, the use of digressions, the intervention of Gods in human affairs, and focusing on inanimate object. To be a part of the canon or to be entered on it through gain certain privileges of high culture in such as museum directors and scholars and …show more content…
While Cordelia, she is unselfish feelings she is a symbol of virtue thinks to do her duty only with a great loyalty to her family in contrasting to her sisters the two monstrous.
Shakespeare’s great characters in all of his work have remained popular because of their complexity. for example, we can see ourselves as gentle Hamlet, forced against his better nature to seek murderous revenge. And in King Lear, it is vivid new characters’ (the most crucial being perilous) he changes the name to Kent who is King Lear loyal and selfless companion.
Cordelia is seen as the strongest of Shakespeare characters as a mystery, she is the youngest and the least of Lear’s daughters, she is a sympathetic figure with her father ‘’pity’’ , she is silent, lovingly, honestly she get married for the king of France also she is a minor character appearing on stage only in the first and final act she win the challenge.
At the end of the story Goneril poisons Regan because she loves her lover Edmund, then she kills herself and Cordelia dead and her body is carried by her father who is searching for a sign of life but then he falls dead on the top of his
‘’Authority is mean a power to enforce obedience or power to influence actions, beliefs, and opinion’’ “Canons and Classics in Literature” , but this means it does not refer only to power it is also referred to a person or group of people who exercise that power. We know that the word authority refers to the term ( ‘’reception studies’’ which means the study of the reuse and reconfiguration of classical literature, art and ideas by later artists and thinkers through generations) “Canons and Classics in Literature” . Such as King Lear it is written in 1608 while the novel A Thousand Acres by Jane wrote in 1991.
Canon have the weight of public scholarship and have educational authority behind it, the industry of canon come through knowledge and interpretations, canon have in general many characteristic features that related to it such as the use of speeches, the use of digressions, the intervention of Gods in human affairs, and focusing on inanimate object. To be a part of the canon or to be entered on it through gain certain privileges of high culture in such as museum directors and scholars and …show more content…
While Cordelia, she is unselfish feelings she is a symbol of virtue thinks to do her duty only with a great loyalty to her family in contrasting to her sisters the two monstrous.
Shakespeare’s great characters in all of his work have remained popular because of their complexity. for example, we can see ourselves as gentle Hamlet, forced against his better nature to seek murderous revenge. And in King Lear, it is vivid new characters’ (the most crucial being perilous) he changes the name to Kent who is King Lear loyal and selfless companion.
Cordelia is seen as the strongest of Shakespeare characters as a mystery, she is the youngest and the least of Lear’s daughters, she is a sympathetic figure with her father ‘’pity’’ , she is silent, lovingly, honestly she get married for the king of France also she is a minor character appearing on stage only in the first and final act she win the challenge.
At the end of the story Goneril poisons Regan because she loves her lover Edmund, then she kills herself and Cordelia dead and her body is carried by her father who is searching for a sign of life but then he falls dead on the top of his