King Lear Discussion

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Read the last 2 acts of King Lear. Maximum of 1 page.

Explore your response to the ending of the play by considering not only your own thoughts but the perspectives with which the two critical articles provide us. Select one of the following questions as the focus for your initial post.

  • What was your response to the ending?
  • How do the articles and Camus philosophy help us to identify ways of interpreting the play that we had not previously considered?
  • What is significant about these new ways of conceptualizing evil?

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http://shakespeare.mit.edu/lear/full.html

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King Lear: Importance of the New Ways of Conceptualizing Evil
Different people perceive evil differently. In King Lear play, evil is explicated from the
discontentment of humanity. Notably, the characters depict evil as what makes people yearn
superfluous in life. Albany notes that "wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile" (Saunders
207) It is for this reason that Gloucester asserts that “let the su...


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