Analysis of Act I of King Lear
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Act I of ShakespeareÆs King Lear involves the initial actions of the destruction of the prevailing order. The destruction of the old order cuts across a number of different dimensions, including the personal, familiar, social, natural, and divine. This analysis will discuss the destruction of the old order by showing evidence of how these five orders are destroyed. Act I opens with King LearÆs announcement that he is about to destroy the old social order. He is aged and intends to divide his kingdom into three portions, one for each of his daughters. Whichever daughter professes the most love for Lear will receive the richest portion of the kingdom. Cordelia loves Lear the most but refuses to flatter him like her older sisters, Regan and Goneril. Cordelia maintains she cannot ôheave her heart into her mouthö and replies with ôNothing, my lord,ö when Lear asks her what she has to profess to him, (Shakespeare, I.i.90-91; 86). Lear becomes enraged, disowns Cordelia, and splits his kingdom between Goneril and Regan. In this, we have the breakdown of the old social order, as G
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