King_Lear_And_Moll_Flanders

King Lear And Moll Flanders The definition of power used in literature can be interpreted as a character employing their ability to act or produce an effect on a particular physical or emotional faculty. Power is ambiguous, and the different ways a person can exercise power are infinite. However, particular kinds of power can only be brought into action by a person of the legitimate authority, for example, the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Literature does not only focus on people of this certain authoritative power because average people play an important role in society. A Prime Minister must be voted into government power by individuals with different levels of power; recognised and unrecognised. This reality gives any human being extreme power in itself and proves ultimately that, to some extent, each person holds the power to influence their lives and the lives of others. The play King Lear was written and performed in 1605, during the first years of the reign of King James I. King James succeeded Queen Elizabeth so the public had striven to accept a Queen and felt the dramatic change in the monarchy similar to the disruption in King Lear. Edward Spenser’s allegorical poem The Faire Queene (1590 – 1596) power, king, lear, moll, edmund, legitimate, , very, play, people, kingdom, character, proves, james, however, good, gain, even, being, authority, am, wealth, title, through, therefore, society, scene, queen, person, over, man, makes, longer, husband, holds