The Discombobulated Guide to King Lear

Act 5 Scene 3- Part 3

Act 5 Scene 3-Part 3 throws down the book and exits in protest to Shakespeare's cruelty

SETTING: 

Same as before

SUMMARY: 

So, we're post-duel, Edmund is on the ground everyone is amazed and Edgar is finally unmasked!!!!Onwards....

Edgar fills in where he has been to Albany and tells that Gloucester died once Edgar had revealed himself- but its fine because he died of joy. 

Then Edgar tells how Kent came in and wept (due to the battle) befire fainting due to grief. 

The 'party' is interrupted by knight who reports that Goneril and Regan's death; the former committing suicide after poisoning Regan. 

Albany tells them to bring the bodies out and Edmund remarks how he was contracted to the both- still smug even when dying... typical.

Kent now enters to see Lear and everyone finally wonders where Lear is.

Edmund finally reveals his plot and chaotically they organise to stop the fake 'suicide' of Cordelia and Lear.

They have just sent someone to stop the plot when...

Lear comes in carrying Cordelia in his arms and howling.

 Lear believes she is still alive and tries to prove it with a feather. 

Whilst Lear is mourning Kent finally tries to show Lear that he has been loyal this whole time.  Remeber Kent has been banished, survived a strom, survived a war and stuck through Lear's mad ramblings.... BUT LEAR DOESN'T RECOGNISE HOM Why, Shakespeare, why???? Why do you play with your characters this way!!!!!  (sorry by now I'm emotionally attached to these characters)

Albany, meanwhile, decides it is a great time to give a grief-stricken Lear his land back.

Lear finally dies of a broken heart, his last thoughts thinking that Cordelia was still alive.

Everyone tries to revive Lear to no avail. RIP King Lear.

So Alabny tries once again to give out the land, this time to Edgar and Kent due to their loyalty, but Kent refuses and goes to... 'join his master'.

Edgar finally ends with a speech.

KEY THEMES: 

Chaos

Redemption

Loyalty

Injustice/Justice

Fate, higher powers

Betrayal- Goneril & Regan

KEY CONTEXTS:

Hysterico passio

Tragedies

Perception of suicide

Biblical sacrifice of Jesus- Cordelia carried by Lear

KEY QUOTATIONS:

· 'Met I my father with his bleeding rings/Their precious stones new lost; became his guide' Edgar pg.251 line 189-190 LOYALTY/SIGHT

· ''O! our lives' sweetness,/That we pain of death would hourly die/Rather than die at once' Edgar pg.251 line 184-185 

· 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,/Burst smilingly' Edgar about G dying pg.253 line 196-197 

· 'Followed his enemy King , and did him service/Improper of a slave' Edgar about Kent pg.253 line 220-221 LOYALTY/CLASS/SOCIETY

· 'The judgement of the heavens, that makes us tremble/Touches us not with pity' Albany pg. 255 line 231-232  FATE

· 'Howl, howl, howl you men are stones' Lear possibly talking about the gods. pg. 257 line 257 FATE

· 'Her voice was ever soft,/Gentle and low' Lear about Cordelia pg.259 line 271-272 

· 'That from your first of difference and decay,/Have followed your footsteps' Kent pg.259 line 288-289 LOYALTY/MADNESS

· 'The wages of their virtues, and all foes/The cup of their deserving' Albany pg.261 lines303-304 BETRAYAL/FATE

· 'Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say' Edgar pg.263 line 324 WISDOM

Note: I'll, I'll... screw it. I'll shut up for once.