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Example scenes for violence in nature

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Animal insults
The storm
Edmund’s devotion to nature

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First key point?

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Violence in nature - the reduction of humans to animals

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How does violence in nature link to Oedipus

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Oedipus animalistic, almost demonic blinding of himself

References to Kithairon

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Quotes for violence in nature

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Detested kite

Sharper than a serpents tooth

Tigers, not daughters

Humanity must perforce prey on itself, like monsters of the deep

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks

The plague of custom

Nature, thou art my goddess

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Second point about suffering

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Violence reflects the breakdown of justice

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Examples for violence reflects breakdown of justice

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Blinding

Edmunds twisted sense of justice

Joint stool trial

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Critics/ context for violence reflects breakdown of justice

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DC Hockey (trial structure); Anna Hermesmann; Divine Right

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Quotes for violence and the breakdown of justice

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We may not pass upon his life without the form of justice, yet our power shall do a court’sy to our wrath

Bind fast his corky arms

Pinion him like a thief

Let him smell his way to Dover

I will see winged vengeance overtake such children/see’t thou shalt never

Robed man of justice/ yoke-fellow of equity

False justicer, why hast thou let her scape?

This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me that which my father loses, no less than all; the younger rises when the old doth fall

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Third point about violence

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Suffering is meaningless

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Examples of suffering being meaningless?

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The ending

The battle

Gloucester’s suicide

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Suffering is meaningless - link to Oedipus?

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References to ‘nothing’

The gods open cruelty…

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Critics/context for meaningless suffering

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Nihilistic reading - Jan Kott, Swinburne

Link to James I and attitude to unifying Britain.

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Quotes for meaningless suffering

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Alarum within/alarum and retreat within

Away, old man, give me thy hand, away! King Lear has lost, he and his daughter ta’en.

O you mighty gods! This world I do renounce

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport

Is this the promised end?

Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all?

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Fourth point about suffering

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Suffering allows us to attain good characters?

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Example of suffering developing character

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Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are, how shall your houseless heads and unfed sides defend you from seasons such as these?

Some good I mean to do yet, in spite of mine own nature

Edgar - ‘some villain hath done me wrong’ to guiding his father and overthrowing his brother.

Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound upon a wheel of fire.

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Counter examples to suffering developing character?

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Edmunds repentance FAILS.

And Gloucester’s statement ‘Henceforth I will bear affliction till it do cry out itself enough enough!’ is the result of Edgar tricking him!

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Critics/context for suffering developing character??

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SL Bethell