King Lear Cathartic Moment Essay

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Moments of 'Emotional outpouring ' (cathartic moments) are crucial to both tragedies because they communicate to an audience 's feelings of emotion and of sympathy for Shakespeare 's character. The become an Humanizing moments, when the protagonist is not seen as emotional but rather just a flaw that is moving the on until that cathartic moment.
Initially, King Lear appears to be a strong ruler, a monarch who has decided to divide kingdom. This is crucial because this would make the audience perceive him to be a selfless king. However, his loss of control when Cordelia refuses to proclaim that her love for her father is greater than that of her future husband like her other sisters make the audience change their perspective of king Lear …show more content…

It was actually to Goneril who is one of the evil master mind of the whole play. However, Goneril 's sympathy the audience might hold for her dissipates immediately after Lear 's departure.
King Lear 's cathartic moment was also explored when he was in the storm in Act 3 scene 2 where his use of language shows a gradual degradation in his mental state. In this scene the combination of storm and thunder can be used to explain the turmoil going on in King Lear 's mind due to his fury at his daughter and his impending madness. This is illustrated in the line "Blow winds and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! You cataracts and hurricanes, spout. Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks" In this scene, the audience were again shown how the king deals with problems that besiege him.
In this scene, King Lear submitting to the destructive power of the storm rather than seek protection or fight for his sanity is important because it showed us that he has fallen so far from the strong Monarch that we saw at the beginning of the play. Lear only has enough power and strength in him to wish for utter destruction, yet he remains a sympathetic character, who fears for his mental

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