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King Lear, Acte III, scène 4 (Shakespeare)
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The Elizabethan Age was characterised by its new interests in human psychology and its existential questions about man’s place in the universe. Shakespeare, who was unmistakably one of the most prolific playwrights at the time, was among the first to study the question of madness, especially in his well-known play entitled King Lear in which he developed a tragic world ruled by chaos and folly. The story depicts the cruel fate of a king named Lear, who by lack of clear-sightedness gave his realm away to his daughters in exchange of the demonstration of their love. By doing this, Lear condemned himself, since his own daughters started shunning him and stopped to acknowledge his kinghood. Betrayed and homeless, Lear wanders desperately in the harshness of a hostile world, falling into deep madness. This process of slow descent into insanity is ignited in the third act, mostly in scene four: after his daughters have dismissed him, Lear and some of his faithful attendants take shelter in a hovel.
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1. We must distinguish the faked madness used as a disguise, from real madness
2. The depiction of sins through the evocation of the seven deadly sins and the vision of woman as an everlasting temptress
3. The role of nature as a character but also as a token of inward disorder and chaos
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