Analysis Of Formalist Criticism In King Lear

In the play of King Lear you have to really keep your focus on what is going on and the situation(s) that may be happening in both the act and scene of the play or both. In the play by Shakespeare my theory of it is Formalist Criticism. The question you probably ask is why ‘Formalist Criticism’? Well throughout the play we get to hear from the characters and learn what's going on and who they really are. All of us humans have our own thoughts with the knowledge we know. It should be examined on the terms alone because we don’t all know the same thing.

Shakespeare has his way of his plays and knows really well how to try to twist your mind into what's happening and is having you pay attention and really wonder how the end is going to turn out. When you're reading the play you might not comprehend the scenes right away, but as the scenes and acts go on you begin to absorb more and more about the characters and King Lear himself.

In King Lear most of the act is about the division of his castle and throne divided into three for his daughters that he wishes to give to and who also wish to have it from him. He himself doesn't wish to give it up though. He mentions in the beginning in scene 1 and act 1. This actually follows through most of the play and is the reason why he begins to have complication of anger and aggression a lot more. He doesn't seem to know what to do because of the fighting that goes on throughout the play. The reader will begin to realize who the characters really are and the state of mind they have developed.

Some people when you first meet them you can think two things of them you might either like them or not like them. They do often say don't let someone's innocence or sweetness lose yourself inside of them. I...

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...n them. After awhile Edgar vanishes and Edmund returns and begins to tell Albany about the letter and the battle that is going to happen. He does this because he hopes she can stop it maybe and find his way out of it.

The battle begins and after a while he returns letting them know about the battle and what has happened in the battle. Well he informs them that in the battle Lear and team have lost and they also captured Cordilia telling them. Glouster will continue to stay where he is and let them go where he is and kill him there he doesn’t want to go where they are, and wants them to come to him. The fight doesn’t last long and finished not that long after it started also. At the end Goneril and Regan were united. They come in the end and learn that what will help in the division of Lear’s kingdom of his castle. And later on Glouster will end up becoming king.