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Consider him well.—Thou owest the worm
no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool,
the cat no perfume. Ha! Here’s three on ’s are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man
is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal
as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come. Unbutton here.
Kent: No, do not.
For confirmation that I am much more
Than my out-wall,
Lear:...Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw does pierce it.
IN CONCLUSION
Shakespeare's usage of clothing and disguise in King Lear was nothing short of effective.
Many factors and references was taken into consideration to generate our thesis. Everything from:
Clothing and disguise
are used to represent
changing social status.
In “Disguise in King Lear: Kent and Edgar,” a scholarly journal by Hugh Maclean, he discusses “Disguise in Elizabethan drama [to be] ‘the substitution, overlaying or metamorphosis of dramatic identity, whereby one character sustains two roles; this may involve deliberate or involuntary masquerade, mistaken or concealed identity, madness or possession’” (Maclean 49).
Edgar: ...I will preserve myself; and am bethought
To take the basest and most poorest shape
That ever penury, in contempt of man,
Brought near to beast. My face I’ll grime
with filth, Blanket my loins, elf all my
hair in knots, And with presented
nakedness out-face The winds and
persecutions of the sky
Kent: If but as well I other accents borrow,
That can my speech diffuse, my good intent
May carry through itself to that full issue
For which I razed my likeness. Now, banished Kent,
If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemned,
So may it come, thy master, whom thou lovest,
Shall find thee full of labours.
The social decline of characters in King Lear, is shown through the disguise and clothing if characters. The changes in appearance of these characters are symbolic of their falls from grace and descent in the social hierarchy.
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