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King Lear - The Fool: A Motivated Character
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The Fool: A Motivated Character
William Shakespeare is known to be one of the greatest tragic play writers of all time. Shakespeare, the playwright, poet, and actor grew up in the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon. He spent most of his professional life in London and returned to Stratford as a w ....
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William Hazlitt agrees that the Fool is of great importance to the play. He feels that the contrast would be to o painful, the shock to great, if the Fool was not part of the play. The Fool adds a sense of relief to the reader. He says that the imagination is glad to take refuge in the half-comic, half-serious comments of the Fool. Lear may well “beat at the gate which let his folly in,” (I, 4, 171). The Fool shows weaknesses in the old king’s conduct, and the consequences of the.... |
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