William
Shakespeare was not only the name of a play writer but also, he was a versatile
genius in the sky of English literature who led his pen through out the intensive
problems of human beings irrespective of castes and creed and even with his
gallant touch, the common phenomena of human societies have been reflected in a
systematic manner. As he has entered in English literature as a Play Writer but
he has thought about the poetic diction in the world which speaks about the
nature, love and the superiority of natural aspects virtually. In his flow of
writing, he has included all sorts of literary contents very tactfully and used
his dialect in the creation of world literature for which he had had the
recognition of the world as the greatest author and dramatist.
William
Shakespeare was born at par Avon in Stratford where he was brought up and so
far it is learnt that his father was a carpenter in a Weaving factory He
received his primary education from Stratford and afterwards, he joined to a
drama club from where he had started his career as a play writer. Afterwards,
he had written a number of world class books on English literature out of which
King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, as you like it, Julius
Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, Measures for Measure are the greatest. In every
of his literary creations, he added the dimension of poetic diction and thus he
ornamented his literary stringency with full aspects human problems and their
solutions. His poem in English literature is unforgettable because he has
brought the contrasts of feelings in between man and nature. As has been
reflected in the sonnet XXIX by
William Shakespeare, a true love of his beloved with nature has been vividly
contemplated in a significant manner. The poet thinks that his love for his
beloved will be never ending. Even, some changes may occur in natures which
always show the sequence of transient trend of life. The influences on
change-ability of the nature over the earth are melancholy and transitory.
Human beings are developed in the earth and flourished through some changes day
by day after a short span of time, causing decay and destruction, he dies and
his everything on earth is faded away as a symbol transient growth of nature.
The poet thinks that he has unlimited love towards his beloved and this love is
never changed as the nature changes and develops and withers. The beauties on
earth are temporary and as such melancholic strain prevails in its every
influence over the plants, environment and the situation that occurs after
change. The earth is changing with the changes of nature and his love cannot be
changed which is permanently bedded on integrity, peace and faith in his heart.
The poet presents a true love, which is uncommon, but illuminating
conflagration will occur spontaneously.
According
to William Shakespeare, the nature is encountered with unbounded sequence of
earthly objects and beauteous outpourings occur in the mental attitude of the
poet. To speak the truth, the poet has an immense love for his beloved and in
exchange of anything it is pure and unparalleled. The poet envisages that due
to changes on the nature, his love will never be changed rather it will be
hidden forever. In this poem, the theme is ideally judged in terms of
allegorical meaning of real love and purity of life. It is obvious that the
poet's love is heavenly dedicated which lies forever. It is neither perishable
nor changeable. According to him, his perpetual and happy love always remains
in his inward eye, which reveals the utmost sphere of livelihood. His life is
without love for his beloved does not show any significance of real life in the
sense.
There
is no denying the fact that once there was discernment that brought into being
popular during the 16th century in England . It was in fastidious proliferated
by the Tudor rulers in order to ensure the prolongation by their rules as the
system of kingship was supposed to be fixed by the deity himself where men’s
willingness was fake and fabricated. This doctrine affirmed that the king was
god specified, self-governing and a direct representative of supernatural being
on earth. Therefore under no state of affairs was the king to be aloof, put
back as this throne appropriated on this would be alongside the strength of
character of God. Once a king was named he was to remain one until he died or usual
death and even to step down from the kingship was not permissible.
In
his famous book, ‘Troilus and Cressida’
William Shakespeare verbalizes, “Take but degree away, untune that string, And
hark, what discord follows” where he sought after to articulate explicitly that
for the Elizabethans, the dominion was not minimally a well-designed role where
it was a fundamental part of a pecking order predestined by God himself which accommodates
the celestial, saintly, human being, mammal and materialistic world. Everything
had its selected place in this progression. To dislocate was to provoke pandemonium.
The king was God’s right to be heard on earth and whichever attempt to squeeze
the throne from him would lead to mayhem and suffice it to pronounce that it
was not some far-flung theory which subsequently several Shakespeare’s plays
are apprehensive with the remove from power of kings – and that cataclysm perpetually
tag along – is a manifestation of the implication of the impression, and of
Elizabethan fretfulness about the chain to the queen.
The
Elizabethans would have initiated it easier said than done to comprehend Lear’s
renunciation. Even of inferior quality was to carve up the kingdom and thus generate
scope for potential rivalry: such an accomplishment could not be tolerated by a
people for whom the internecine bloodlettings of the wars of the Roses hang
about a folk reminiscence. Shakespeare’s social group would understand Lear’s tribulations:
a worn-out aged king with no son to succeed to his favorite daughter uncommitted.
But they would have distinguished no answer but for the king to endure: God had
placed him on the throne and, in the comprehensiveness of time, God would
remove him. If they implicit Lear’s dilemma, they would recognize even better
the chaos mechanism from his wrong-headed resolution.
There
is supplementary delicate standpoint in which we have to view this premise of
kingship. The play seems to point toward that the altitude of the throne can
distort the person who occupies it. Lear has been congregated for so long with adulation
that he can no longer make a distinction connecting sincerity and deception. He
has for so long been obeyed in every scrupulous that he cannot stand for the
slightest delay in the observance of his wishes. That which in the young king
might have been forthright and assertive has now degenerated into the vain,
harsh and imperious. It is an inquiring feeling whether it occurs in the case
of all leaders, rulers and kings. Perhaps but what we know for certain is that
Lear has to undergo an agonized flaking away of accumulated layers of
insensitivity and obtuseness before finding himself. Would he have needed to do
so if he had been a humble servant rather than a sovereign? It seems by a hair's breadth likely. Is a king
sufferer as able-bodied as a ruler?
Even
supposing, misfortunes in King Lear shoots up to a paramount celestial height,
the chronicles finds its pedigree in an awful status like run of the mill which
envisage the apprehension between parents and grown up children which reflect
readers to be more intensive to have eagerness to know the situation ahead. At its simplest, the play concerns itself
with the expectations of aged parents and the differing responses of their
adult children. Shakespeare’s Macbeth had no doubt about ‘that which should accompany
old age’ which he clarifies as ‘tribute, devotion, submission’. King Lear would
certainly say amen to that although he would add gratitude. His antagonism with
Cordelia stems not only just from mortification and hurt pride, but also from
rage at her apparent ungratefulness. As he
is progressively broken by Goneril and Regan, his torment resounds on this
theme and even until he begins to learn through suffering , Lear’s thoughts are
for himself of what his children’s
obligations are to him, of what he has done for them and how it should be
rewarded. The key problem is that both parents and children are confronting a
time of changeover, of exchange of power and authority. The parents are in taking
a rain check, the young at the peak of their power and energy. We see two
responses from the children. One, from Cordelia and Edgar, is to love and succour
their parents, accept their faults, bear no grudge, bide their time. The other,
from Goneril, Regan and Edmond ,
is ruthless, self-centered, annoyed and heavy-handed. The old are past it, no
more than an encumbrance and an obstruction. They must be hard-pressed aside
and inheritance detained. The best expression of this comes from Edmond, in the
words he attributes to Edgar:’ I have heard him of mountain it to be fit that,
sons at perfect age, and fathers declined, the father should be as ward to the
son and the son manages his revenue’ . Lear, of course, receives similarly
short sheriff and In scene iv Goneril speaks repeatedly of his dotage the point
is driven home later by Regan. As his daughters strip him of his retinue, Lear
brokenly points out’ I gave you all’. The retort expresses well the philosophy
of usurping ‘And in the nick of time, you bestow it’ and as such the fool
drives home the point:
‘The hedge sparrow fed the
cuckoo so long
That it’s hard if head bit
off by it young’
Lear,
Gloucester and Kent
cherish a conservative view in which family bonds, commitment, amazement and
reverence for pecking order are paramount: Gloucester ,
surveying the crumbling of Lear’s world and his own, laments: “We have seen the
best of our time, Edmond ,
Goneril and Regan are the hard-headed, clear-sighted progressive – modernists
who have no time for antiquated ideas. They are of today and the future,
ordering their lives and very much in charge of their fate. The conflicting
attitudes of the children reach their apotheoses dramatically. Goneril and
Regan combine to break their father; Edmond
contributes to the blinding of Gloucester .
Nothing will be allowed to stand in their way. A corresponding apotheosis restores
the old values; when Edgar leads his blinded father to some retrieval of hope
and happiness, when cordelia reassures the bewildered Lear, they are not being
obedient, not responding to any hierarchical imperative. They are simply
expressing a love, loyalty and regard too strong to have been undermined by the
rash misjudgment of their father.
This
straightforward fiction of two impulsion aged men, betrayed by self-interested progeny
and redeemed by the feelings of affection for of a wronged child, has a widespread
significance. As children we have got to all come to terms with our attitudes
to our parents, to their and our shifting needs. As parents we must brazen out the
fact that our children will outgrow us and supersede. It is evident that there
is no easy answer, no superficial ethics. conceivably, however, we learn with
Lear and Gloucester , Cordelia and Edgar, that the old must not anticipate to
receive all, must continue to give, to realize to learn- and the young must hold
out care for and respect for as long as we are concerned with or for craving to
receive in question. Things cannot be hurried for which it is universally noted
that ripeness is all.
Not
only in King Lear, had he written many tragedy plays where has he enlightened
the problems, love and enmity of human beings. In Hamlet, he had added the
beauty of Hamlet with nature and supernatural aspects. In this book, he had
used many literary techniques like simile, metaphor and soliloquy with which he
led his pen about Hamlet with unbounded courage and hardihood. When Hamlet came
to learn the death news of his father, he became amazing and he was also
surprised that his mother had married his uncle Claudius. By supernatural
aspects of his father’s ghostly sprits, he learnt about the conspiracy of his
uncle and mother and as such he promised to revenge against the murder of his
father. William Shakespeare very nicely represented the character of Hamlet and
finally he became successful when Hamlet had had his revenge at last against
his uncle and mother.
All
the way through suffering, Lear learns a new ethical view of his life and human
relationship with one another specifically if the relation is framed with close
human ties. According to him, it is a judgment nowhere in signal in early
stages of the play, which develop in a mood of ruthless materialism, of that
which can be counted and measured. Gloucester
and Kent
have a discussion of the sharing out of the kingdom; Lear wants his daughters
to express the dimensions of their love; the actual number of knights becomes a
crucial symbol of self-hood. A man it appears is what he owns, an expression of
his belongings having stressed by his daughters into justifying his needs for a
retinue, Lear’s speech beginning ‘O
reason not the need’ is magnificently moved, but cracks down in confusion. He
seems to be asserting that man needs superfluous items in order to mark him off
from animals, but the line of thought will not hold. It is, in any case a view
that he will draw closer to discard.
It
is throughout the storm that Lear loses his footing towards a conception of
what a man really is, what his true needs are. From uncontrolled against
charlatan, he turns to sympathy for the unrehearsed -‘meager nude wretches’
before becoming one himself by dragging off his clothes in emulation of poor
Tom. He, by his cosmopolitan outlook enunciates through the world of surface
impressions: he recognizes and expresses that he is one of the lowliest. Lear continues to learn of keen necessity of
honesty, sincerity, simplicity and openness. It is a theme which culminates in
his in his reunion with Cordelia and particularly in his birds in the cage
speech. The important thing is to be with those one loves and trusts, to seek
and offer forgiveness as may be necessitated to make merriments to each other
company. And regarding the justice of human beings, we find in King Lear that
the wealthy and mighty don’t guarantee even handed justice; those with the whip-hand
of power and authority often abuse it. Considering Lear’s trial of his
daughter’s affection his disgusting punishment of Cordelia and Kent; the
flaying of Lear and Gloucester
by the newly installed high and mighty; the cruel death of Cordelia. The demented
trial of scene iii act vi some how projects deceptiveness of it all, while
Lear’s eruption in scene IV against the rascal beadle and robes and furred
gowns is a fulminating attack on evil motives virtually. Gloucester contributes to this understanding in
that his blinding, by rich and elevated is a catalyst which simply attracts
goodness from the ordinary servants and the old man who guides him. This is why
like Lear he comes to see the importance of sharing affluence and ruination
excess. The best certification of righteousness seems to lie not in setting one
man over another, but in mutual sympathy and regard for each others dignity and
needs. As we are to conjecture that lusting after riches and belongings is eventually
self slaughter and severe death of Cornwall ,
Goneril, Regan, and Edmond
seem to peak to this. On the other hand, Lear and Gloucester- two old men who suffer and loss
so much –seem in a sense to be triumphant, for they achieve some grasp of man’s
need for outspokenness, justice truth, absolution and love.
In
his literary creation, he had shown that over ambitious in life is a dangerous
thing. In Julius Caesar, Brutus was an over ambitious person and he had a long
cherished desire to become a king over night. But after killing the king
Caesar, he had been cut into pieces let alone being the king. Similarly,
Macbeth was over ambitious but his consequence was very fatal. He had written a
number of historic plays and romantic comedy. In all of his creation, he was
second to none in creating history in English literature by his unbounded race
towards the reforms process of human defects and the maxim of nature.
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