How does Shakespeare make King Lear such a moving character in this scene?
In this scene, the audience is shown that King Lear is distraught, miserable and incensed, whilst he is standing outside regan’s house. This becomes clear when King Lear says,"But yet I call you servile ministers, that have with two pernicious daughters join'd your high and engender'd battle 'gainst a head so old and white as this." Here, Shakespeare uses the word 'daughters' to emphasise that Lear is despondent and disconsolate about how his daughters have just treated him.
Shakespeare presents King Lear as such a moving character when he is outside in the storm vociferating to God about how he shouldn't be treated differently to how God himself is treated. Evidence …show more content…
This becomes clear when King Lear says,” My wits begin to turn.” The phrase “wits begin to turn”, evokes a felling of guilt, because when most of the audience probably thought that King Lear was wrong of banishing Cordelia, they perhaps feel guilty because of seeing what state he’s in now. This would have been an important issue in Shakespeare's day, because the audience probably all knew about how Kings were usually treated like Gods. The word ‘wits’ connects to the context of Kings usually being treated like gods, because he has almost lost his wits, whilst he is still the king of …show more content…
Shakespeare show us this when he writes,”rubble thy bellyful! Spit,fire! Spout, rain!” Here, the use of “spit,fire” is very important, because it tells us that King Lear wants the storm to start ‘spitting a partial amount of fire’. The use of “spout,rain” seems very important as well, because it tells is that he also wants the storm to start ‘spouting rain’. The reason why these are important is because the definition of spit is: ‘to fall in scattered drops’ or ‘to express hatred, and the definition of spout is: ‘to emit or discharge forcibly(a liquid, granulated substance etc.) in asters or jet’. Now knowing of these definitions, we get an image in our head of fire falling in scattered drops, whilst the rain is emitting for ably in a stream. The use of four monosyllabic words creates an impression of King Lear shouting the words. I know this because the four monosyllabic worse have an exclamation mark after
In this scene, the audience is shown that King Lear is distraught, miserable and incensed, whilst he is standing outside regan’s house. This becomes clear when King Lear says,"But yet I call you servile ministers, that have with two pernicious daughters join'd your high and engender'd battle 'gainst a head so old and white as this." Here, Shakespeare uses the word 'daughters' to emphasise that Lear is despondent and disconsolate about how his daughters have just treated him.
Shakespeare presents King Lear as such a moving character when he is outside in the storm vociferating to God about how he shouldn't be treated differently to how God himself is treated. Evidence …show more content…
This becomes clear when King Lear says,” My wits begin to turn.” The phrase “wits begin to turn”, evokes a felling of guilt, because when most of the audience probably thought that King Lear was wrong of banishing Cordelia, they perhaps feel guilty because of seeing what state he’s in now. This would have been an important issue in Shakespeare's day, because the audience probably all knew about how Kings were usually treated like Gods. The word ‘wits’ connects to the context of Kings usually being treated like gods, because he has almost lost his wits, whilst he is still the king of …show more content…
Shakespeare show us this when he writes,”rubble thy bellyful! Spit,fire! Spout, rain!” Here, the use of “spit,fire” is very important, because it tells us that King Lear wants the storm to start ‘spitting a partial amount of fire’. The use of “spout,rain” seems very important as well, because it tells is that he also wants the storm to start ‘spouting rain’. The reason why these are important is because the definition of spit is: ‘to fall in scattered drops’ or ‘to express hatred, and the definition of spout is: ‘to emit or discharge forcibly(a liquid, granulated substance etc.) in asters or jet’. Now knowing of these definitions, we get an image in our head of fire falling in scattered drops, whilst the rain is emitting for ably in a stream. The use of four monosyllabic words creates an impression of King Lear shouting the words. I know this because the four monosyllabic worse have an exclamation mark after