{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"16984789","dateCreated":"1258416367","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"najele.buffonge","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/najele.buffonge","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1254110316\/najele.buffonge-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/year2literature.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/16984789"},"dateDigested":1532173640,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Nature and Illegitimacy","description":"Nature and the Unnatural. Along with the legitimacy and illegitimacy of offspring (in birth or action) a question also arises around the role of nature and nature\u2019s effect or lack thereof on their lives. Edmund addresses Nature as his goddess. Lear conjures the storm. What then is the significance of the NATURE.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"16989171","body":"honestly i am having a difficult time with this question","dateCreated":"1258421006","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"Brooke-B","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Brooke-B","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"16989637","body":"Nature is significant because of the character's beliefs in Nature bieng responsible for their actions and reactions to certain problems which arise in the play. Gloucester uses Nature as an excuse for Edmund's conception.","dateCreated":"1258421495","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"ReginaApparicio","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ReginaApparicio","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"16984689","dateCreated":"1258416260","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"najele.buffonge","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/najele.buffonge","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1254110316\/najele.buffonge-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/year2literature.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/16984689"},"dateDigested":1532173640,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"The significant of the fool","description":"Fools and Foolishness. What kind of fool is the Fool? What does he teach us? How are we to understand Lear\u2019s foolishness?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"16987595","body":"In the play King Lear the fool plays a very significant role in that the Fool speaks more sense than the other characters and is able to pick up on the characteristics of the two older sisters Goneril and Regan whilst King leear remains blissfully oblivious to his error. The fool is a very wisde character and is able to point out the flaws of the kings decisions without being reprimanded for his speech because the king has no idea what the fool is saying. He teaches us a very important lesson and that is even through the mouth of a fool, words of wisdom may be uttered. We are to see King Lears foolishness more as blindness rather than stupidity. He was blinded by his own selfish pride and wanting to be v erbally flattered, he was unable to see thee true nlove his youngest daughter had for him.","dateCreated":"1258419491","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"Brooke-B","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Brooke-B","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"16987675","body":"Hi Brooke.  Just answer the following links ok","dateCreated":"1258419589","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"najele.buffonge","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/najele.buffonge","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1254110316\/najele.buffonge-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"16987787","body":"do you notice some of the examples that the fool point out to Lear?  Can you find some of these examples.  I think the fool is the smartest character.  What do you think?","dateCreated":"1258419682","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"najele.buffonge","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/najele.buffonge","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1254110316\/najele.buffonge-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"16988025","body":"i concur that he is and King Lear refuses to see that because he is so caught up with himself and i think he also figures that the fool is making a mockery of the situation instead of actually stating logical facts which is his sole purpose in the play. Itis rather ironic that the fool is more sensible than the king who is suppose to be the epitome of wisdom.","dateCreated":"1258419888","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"Brooke-B","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Brooke-B","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"16988815","body":"So Mrs Buffonge don't you just like the way the fool made a complete idiot of the King time and time again?","dateCreated":"1258420668","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"Brooke-B","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Brooke-B","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"16989407","body":"The fool is not the typical Shakespearean fool where he submits himself to his masters every wish while performing that is giving jokes, singing or dancing. The fool within the King Lear play plays the role of a witty advisor who tries to reveal to the King his unwiseness. He teaches us that his name does not determine his character and that if even a fool could recognise that Goneril and Regan were dishonest, King lear was in a terrible state of mind due to his age and illness. We are to understand Leah's foolishness by comparing it the Fool's character.","dateCreated":"1258421242","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"ReginaApparicio","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ReginaApparicio","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"16989487","body":"Yes the fool reveals the King's inability to judge his surroundings accurately while others try to hide it.","dateCreated":"1258421325","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"ReginaApparicio","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ReginaApparicio","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"16984525","dateCreated":"1258416041","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"najele.buffonge","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/najele.buffonge","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1254110316\/najele.buffonge-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/year2literature.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/16984525"},"dateDigested":1532173641,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Woman in king Lear","description":"There are many women in the play, but no mothers.    What effect do you think the absence of mothers creates?   Can you imagine Lear\u2019s wife?   Goneril\u2019s children?   Edmund\u2019s mother?   What difference would such characters have made to the play?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"16988327","body":"Honestly I think that these characters would have made a huge difference in the play specifically goneril's children. I think that if she had children that the play may have been more corrupted than it actually was. Can you imagine a bunch of mini Goneril's? It's more scary that the thought of "Seed of Chucky." I1 would also like to think that Edmunds mother would end up being a bitter old lady who took the time to groom her son for revenge and take over. I can almost picture it now, she tucking him into bed reciting the "Thriller" monologue as his bed time story.","dateCreated":"1258420194","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"Brooke-B","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Brooke-B","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"16988697","body":"However i would like to believe that King Lear's wife would have been a contrast to him. Different and complementing personalities. She being the humility to his haughtiness. The understanding and compassionate wife to the conceited and self absorbed husband. Two really bad parents most likely would not haave gotten Cordelia as a daughter specifically after observing the behaviour of the other two daughters. I would even venture so far as to believe that that is why Cordelia was his most loved child, because she possessed the strong characteristics of her mother unlike his the oldder two who are a more conniving, menacing female version of him.","dateCreated":"1258420545","smartDate":"Nov 16, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"Brooke-B","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Brooke-B","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}