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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
this was definitely not my favourite shakespeare play but still interesting to read though. i do plan on making my way through his works.
i find it so interesting that this story became the inspiration for so many more stories. i really enjoy studying it at school and sharing our interpretations and perspectives…
i find it so interesting that this story became the inspiration for so many more stories. i really enjoy studying it at school and sharing our interpretations and perspectives…
so I listened to the arkangel audio book of this and tbh it might have been easier to understand if I physically read it but idk. wish there was less Edgar/Gloucester and more of regan and gonreil being slay evil girlbosses
Earl of Kent telling Oswald what he thinks of him:
Yeah! You tell 'em, Kent! If, in the extremely unlikely case, I had a baby boy, Kent would be a very strong contender for the baby's name, and largely on the merits of what a thorough verbal smackdown Kent dishes out.
For a tragedy, it is a fun story. Everyone's double crossing each other; some characters pretend to be insane while others very much are insane; the villains have a problematic combination of afflictions: paranoid and horny; there is maybe one or two healthy familial relationships (Lear starts Act 1 by kicking out the only daughter who decided to tell him the truth rather than kiss his senile ass), but most of the play depicts love and loyalty and greed and capriciousness being dragged through the mud. Basically, very few people leave this play happy, outside of the readers or viewers.
(I have two small quibbles, though. Edmund's brief moment of regret seems so shocking, given what a maniacal schemer he is, as to almost derail the entire story. And the Fool, by far one of the coolest characters in the play, just up and disappears. But I am slowly being convinced, and intrigued, by the conspiracy theory that the Fool is simply another major character -- who is never around at the same time -- incognito.)
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud,
shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking, whoreson,
glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of
good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave,
beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch;
one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deny the
least syllable of thy addition.
Yeah! You tell 'em, Kent! If, in the extremely unlikely case, I had a baby boy, Kent would be a very strong contender for the baby's name, and largely on the merits of what a thorough verbal smackdown Kent dishes out.
For a tragedy, it is a fun story. Everyone's double crossing each other; some characters pretend to be insane while others very much are insane; the villains have a problematic combination of afflictions: paranoid and horny; there is maybe one or two healthy familial relationships (Lear starts Act 1 by kicking out the only daughter who decided to tell him the truth rather than kiss his senile ass), but most of the play depicts love and loyalty and greed and capriciousness being dragged through the mud. Basically, very few people leave this play happy, outside of the readers or viewers.
(I have two small quibbles, though. Edmund's brief moment of regret seems so shocking, given what a maniacal schemer he is, as to almost derail the entire story. And the Fool, by far one of the coolest characters in the play, just up and disappears. But I am slowly being convinced, and intrigued, by the conspiracy theory that the Fool is simply another major character -- who is never around at the same time -- incognito.)
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
woah it took me over two years to finish this…i got really bored LOL especially when the fool took up too much stage time ((he was funny at times but im just not that appreciative of the fool character in plays))