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occasions, streamlined by fragmentation of sense and motive
for exact calculation. They are like Lear, avant-garde
Machiavels, able to deal explicitly and scientifically with
occasions. They are resolute and consciously liberated not only
from the square of sense but from its moral analogate,
“conscience.” For that ratio among motives “does make
cowards of us all.” And Cordelia is a coward hindered from
specialist action by the complexities of her conscience, her
reason, and her role.
King Lear is a working model of the process of denudation by
which men translated themselves from a world of roles to a
world of jobs.
* King Lear is a kind of elaborate case history of people
translating themselves out of a world of roles into the new