Wednesday, March 30, 2011
King Lear 2
Today's workshop with Rob was pretty cool and very fascinating. I love dissecting books, plays and literature because there is always so much that I don't see at first. By the end of this workshop, I am in love with Shakespeare's King Lear and his work in general. I love that points and themes are so real and relevant to human life because as the years progress the same problems still remain. Art is often times regarded as happy and a way to escape everyday life, but in this case as great art should do, makes us come back to our lives and have it almost physically affect our lives in that we feel (in this play) the pain and violence of how we humans act. The bleak realization that innocence sometimes dies shows us that no matter how hard we try to be "good" in life, we won't survive. The only people that do are characters like Kent and Albany: powerless and hid behind others when we know something is being done wrongly.
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"Art is often times regarded as happy and a way to escape everyday life, but in this case as great art should do, makes us come back to our lives and have it almost physically affect our lives in that we feel (in this play) the pain and violence of how we humans act."
ReplyDeleteExcellent insight, here. This is a great workshop for you.
I have often said, maybe not in class lately, but... I have often said that all works of great art leave you with this: Isn't life so hard? And isn't it so wonderful?
That is the mystery of life right there, how much we love it, how much we hate it, how it pulls us up and smashes us down. How we live to just die in the end.
Art reminds us of this. Sometimes, we don't want to be reminded of this, which is why some art we simply try to avoid.
Yeah definitely and I feel that because King Lear directly plays on the suffering of life and not so much on the happiness of it, the play is disturbing but also fantastic in its crudeness
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