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"you have that in your countenance
which I would fain call master."
"What's that?"
"Authority."
-from King Lear
"A transference or metaphor takes place when we read J, or Shakespeare, or Freud, just as similar transferences took place when our ancestors read these writers. These transferences, on our part, echo or repeat earlier transferences, and what is transferred is our love for authority, our desire to be augmented by the authority we have invested in."
Harold Bloom in
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present.
"A transference or metaphor takes place when we read J, or Shakespeare, or Freud, just as similar transferences took place when our ancestors read these writers. These transferences, on our part, echo or repeat earlier transferences, and what is transferred is our love for authority, our desire to be augmented by the authority we have invested in."
Harold Bloom in
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present.
ACCESS THE PLAY: ACT 1 SCENE 1 (then search for more resources; create an account (free)
NOTES ON THE TEXT:
The "Modern Translation" may help with understanding the plot, or be easier to read and understand; however,NOTE: The "Modern Translation" is inaccurate (at times) because:
-it changes words;-it does also OFTEN INTERPRET and CHANGE the meaning of the text, in many cases OMITTING the metaphors and symbolism AS WELL AS, sometimes, INCORRECTLY "translating" the original text;
THEREFORE, Quote the ORIGINAL TEXT, and NOT the MODERN TRANSLATION (for reasons stated above)
<Click the SPARKNOTES IMAGE to the LEFT to be redirected <to a side-by-side "TRANSLATION" of the play (original text on <left, MODERN TRANSLATION on the right)
[NOTE: The "Original" text here is also not actually the ORIGINAL; spelling and other typographic decisions are made to make the text more like today's accepted grammatical conventions; there are a number of writing and grammar conventions from Shakespeare's time that were quite different, such as the use of an "f" like character for both F and S of modern day writing; a V was used to stand for both modern V and U (see examples from Shakespeare's Sonnets as listed here from the 1609 Quarto Version: http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/30)]
PSYCHOLOGY & PARENTAL AMBIVALENCE (LOVE and HATE)
Sample Study Questions
Short Answer Question 1: How does Act 3, Scene 2 apply to governmental power today? Use quote(s) from the scene and example(s) from current politics.
Short Answer Question 2: How does Act 2, Scene 1 apply to human psychology today? Use quotes from the scene and parallels to humanity (esp. individual psychology) today.
Short Answer Question 3: How does Act 4, Scene 3 apply to legal and/or governmental power today? Use quotes from the scene and examples from current governmental power (and/or corruptions/injustices/abuses).
Short Answer Question 4: What examples of lawyer Murray Richman's principles, practice(s), and cases allow for injustice through the legal system?
Short Answer Question 5: What torts, or harms, has our current political leader(s)/representatives committed?
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