https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g17ziHN59tg
I decided to use the Thug Notes Summary and Analysis of King Lear to try to relate King Lear further to myself. At around the 2:10 mark the speaker, Wisecrack, starts to give an analysis of the entire book. He starts by talking about the beginning of the book, where the King asks his daughters to confess their love for him. As Wisecrack says, the King didn’t even care about what was true he just wanted to feel loved, and the way for him to feel loved was for his daughters to speak about their love out loud. The king may have even known that they were totally lying to him, but he didn’t care he just wanted to feel like he had all the power. Wisecrack says that the most important message that Lear learns is “how important it is to keep it real”. This is a message that Wisecrack thinks Lear learns and is also a really good message for the audience of these videos. It’s nice to feel loved, by people who are talking about it outwardly, but it is even more special to have that love of the third Daughter, Cordelia, who doesn’t want to prove her love but wants him to recognize her love as real, not as fake like her sisters. His second message is “how is a brother supposed to keep it real if he can’t see the truth”, which is even more applicable. Every day we want to feel loved and we enjoy when people say it outwardly, but we need to recognize that we do have that love it just may not be outward every day. And for Lear, it may take him a big portion of the tragedy to recognize it, but she was definitely the realest one with the truest love.
I think Wisecrack chose to emphasize on these points, because he saw a message within the story that he could relate not only to the king but also to the viewers in their everyday lives. I particularly connected with this video because I also try to extrapolate messages out of the things I read and see every day and while this is slightly a mocking way to express what he wants to say, I can really relate to how he views the book and I appreciated his take on it.