[ SECRET POST #3257 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3257 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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03. [SPOILERS for Downton Abbey Season 6]



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04. [SPOILERS for Mockingjay Part 2]



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05. [SPOILERS for Undertale]



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06. [WARNING for rape]



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08. [WARNING for child abuse]

[King Lear]


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09. [WARNING for abuse]

[Tales From the Borderlands]


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10. [WARNING for abuse, PTSD]

[Jessica Jones]









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Comments

[fscom]

08. [WARNING for child abuse]
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[King Lear]

[(Anonymous)]

I always read it the other way around, honestly; them being abusive, with him being a victim/enabler.

[ibbity]

Same here. I never got any indication that he was abusing Regan or Goneril, more that they were waiting for their chance to take the power and wealth that they wanted and once they got their hands on it, they had no more use for Lear. Calculating and power-hungry and willing to get their hands dirty is how I see them, not poor woobies desperately fighting back against abuse. And honestly I find them a lot more compelling characters that way. If you want a poor woobie, try Cordelia.

[(Anonymous)]

People have certainly read weirder things into Shakespeare, I don't think this is that out there.

[skeletal_history]

You're not alone -- Jane Smiley's modern-day novel adaptation, A Thousand Acres, makes that explicit.

(Posted in the right place this time)

[(Anonymous)]

Is that an uncommon read? Because I agree.

[(Anonymous)]

The last two productions of Lear I have seen were clearly slanted toward Lear being abusive. The way he turned on Cordelia certainly suggested something wrong with his parenting. So no, not an out there interpretation.

[(Anonymous)]

King Lear secret! <33333333333333333333

I definitely did NOT think much of Lear's parenting either: the way he plays his daughters off each other in the very first scene, his surprise 180 when Cordelia won't play along with his game, not to mention Regan and Goneril talking about how he'd played favorites, always felt like he was at the very least not exactly father-of-the-year material. And a lot of the stuff Goneril says later on, about how he needs not to be carousing with a bunch of his hangers-on at her expense, not to mention hitting her servants... yeah, girlfriend's got a case right there in the text. I am actually a huge Goneril-fan for this reason.