Good and evil in Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth /Alina Degünther.
- Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (39 pages).
- Compact .
Includes bibliographical references.
Good and Evil in Shakespeare ́s King Lear and Macbeth; Table of Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. The Concepts of Good and Evil in Renaissance; 3. Good and Evil in King Lear and Macbeth; 3.1 Forces of Goodness: Cordelia and Banquo; 3.2. Forces of Evil: Edmund and Lady Macbeth; 3.3. Challenging Concepts of Good and Evil: Lear and Macbeth; 4. Resolving Evil? The Final Scenes; 5. Conclusion; Bibliography.
The concepts of good and evil, which can be understood and defined differently, are two broad and sapid concepts because of its diverse interpretations. The two abstract notions have been discussed throughout the centuries since the human existence and continue to be a dispute today. However, the meaning of good and evil was especially interesting in the middle Ages and Renaissance that will be introduced in the first part of this thesis. It will present the different origins of good and evil and examine how variously these concepts were perceived in the middle Ages and Renaissance. It shoul.