FOUND IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’KING LEAR

Abstract

King Lear is a tragedy written based on the combination of history and legend. All the things presented in the drama are written in form of acts and scenes to represent the time and place in which the events of the story happen. While the anatomy of drama consists of plot (action), character, characterization, setting, conflict and theme which are written in form of dialogues. King Lear presents didactic value in which it leads to education, development of mind, self-control ship and thought enlightenment of human beings. This value tends to inform knowledge, to control behavior and character of human beings, to invite them to think, and to interpret the phenomena happening in the story; and to create sense of nationalism. Therefore, didactic value, in this case, includes the aspects of intellectual and nationalism. Intellectual aspect is an ideal concept which leads readers to think and to interpret the phenomena in the story based on their argument and capacity. By this way, it will create mind development and attitude decision. Mind development is a part of intellectual aspect resulted from reading literary work and knowing the phenomena happening in the story. The phenomena invite readers to respond and to use their logic based on their capacity and cognition. Attitude decision is also a part of intellectual aspect in which it is the result of interpreting on the happening phenomena in the story and the result of learning from the events presented by playwright. It means that after thinking and analyzing logically the events happening in the story, readers then may decide attitude. While, nationalism aspect is an aspect which leads strong devotion to one own nation. It is patriotic feeling, effort and principles owned by one for the sake of one’s nation and manifested through several ways like to love nation and to respect history. People need to love their nation and to have sense of belonging as the basic capital to progress their nation and to create prosperous country. Besides loving nation, people must also appreciate history. Appreciating history is an act resulted from positive feeling in people’s minds which drive them to admire, remind, discuss and even criticize constructively the events happening in the past. This act is the reflection of people’s sense of belonging and responsibility to create better nation and to reach national objective.