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How has critical readings enhanced or broadened your understanding of the text?
Date Submitted: 07/17/2004 17:10:29
The play King Lear is a good example of how critical readings achieve this as it has welcomed different types of readings influenced by social, cultural and historical contexts from which it arose. Of these readings, two in particular Aristotelian Tragedy and Marxism are best in demonstrating this.
Aristotelian Tragedy originated from a Greek "model of tragedy" invented by the man Aristotle (384-322BC) which manifested his view on Aristotelian Tragedy in his famous poetics
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the rebellious new class.
As shown by the diverse meanings manifested by each interpretation of the text, such as the understanding of the play for its ethical values from an Aristotelian Tragedy point of view or the view of it being an ideology put forward for the aristocracy to stay in power. Therefore it is reasonable to believe other critical readings will generate further interpretations, which adds further to our overall understanding of the text.
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