William Shakespeare, the symbol of World literature
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 Stamford and afterwords, he joined to a drama club from where he had
started his career as a play writer. Afterwords, 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'
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 merriment's 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 World literature by his unbounded race towards the reforms process
of human defects and the maxim of truth in literary diction.
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