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Renaissance models of femininity require women to be quite and submissive; Lear's evil daughters Goneril and Regal subvert all excepted codes of filial and feminine behaviour. Discuss?
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Q Renaissance models of femininity require women to be quite and submissive; Lear's evil daughters Goneril and Regal subvert all excepted codes of filial and feminine behaviour. Discuss? The Jacobean age was a time of social and religious change. The feudal, medieval view of the world was under scrutiny and traditional assumptions about gender and class were being questioned by many. One of the main themes of King Lear is filial ingratitude, shown primarily by the attitudes of Goneril and Regan, who also refuse to behave like good, submissive Renaissance women should and were expected to in those days. The traditional values that make the parent-child relationship natural and wholesome are distorted and destroyed in this play. The order and harmony that usually characterize a stable family are disrupted by the evil designs of the greedy and evil Goneril and Regan as well as Edmund. Lear and Gloucester are both trusting fathers and...
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