My first further studies on Shakespearean play in my life would be King Lear which I feel quite “pathetic” but grateful to actually have the chance to read Shakespearean play at advanced level. From the information I had, the story is borrowed from few different stories; The True Chronicle history of King Leir and his Three Daughters, Chronicle of England, Scotland and Ireland, The Faerie Queenee, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia and A Mirror for Magistrates. Shakespeare creates King Lear out of the collected pieces of ideas from those stories. What I like most about King Lear is that the cursive point of where Lear plays a “childish game” inquiring this very important line to his three daughters, “Which of you shall we say doth love us most?” Here, Lear goes against the nature and he is seen to be unnatural as for parent to ask their children to forfeit their love. Shakespeare has actually done well in depicting Lear’s tragic flaw – arrogant, which later brings him to the reversal of fortune as the two daughters who confess their to him have actually disowns him as the story unfolds. There are a lot of animal imageries that can be found in the texts represented by the scavengers animal(such as wolf, pelican etc) which reflect on the negative connotation and the regal animal(such as dolphin, dragon, eagle etc) represents the positive connotations. Apart from that, I am so impressed on how Shakespeare uses the word “nothing”. The line “Nothing comes nothing” from Lear implies nothing comes from nothingness where the “nothingness” is cynically addressed to Cordelia who can’t verbally show his love to her father. As I look upon the story of King Lear, I detect some similarity in King Lear with a classic Malay movie directed by P. Ramlee entitled Ahmad Albab. The match point would be when the father asks his children to show their love towards him in terms of material, the more expensive things they give, the greater their love towards the father. Anyhow, the most visible difference is that in King Lear the story revolves with a father between three daughters, in contrast to that, the story of Ahmad Albab develops between a father and three sons. It is so entertaining and enjoyful to actually see this story which is crated differently according to different culture with ending, yet illustrating the same issue.
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