KING LEAR.
A Passion-Drama.
Scheme of Actions.
Main Plot: a Problem Action: Family of Lear: falling into
Generating Action: [the Problem]. Lear's unstable settlement of the kingdom, power transferred from the good to the bad.
| System of Tragedies [the Solution]. | Double Nemesis Action: Lear receiving good from the injured and evilfrom the favoured children. | |
| Tragic Action: Cordelia: Suffering of the innocent. | ||
| Tragic Action: Goneril and Regan: Evil passions endowed with power using it to work their own destruction. |
Underplot: an Intrigue Action: Family of Gloucester: falling into
Generating Action: [the Intrigue]. Gloucester deceived into reversing the positions of Edgar and Edmund.
| System of Tragedies[its Nemesis]. | Double Nemesis Action: Gloucester receivinggood from the injured and evil from the favouredchild. | |
| Tragic Action: Edgar: Suffering of the innocent. | ||
| Tragic Action: Edmund: Power gained by intrigueused for the destruction of the intriguer. |
Central Link Personage between Main Plot and Underplot: Gloucester (page [283]).