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- Title
"What Wilt Thou Do, Old Man?" -- Being Sick Unto Death: Scrooge, King Lear, and Kierkegaard.
- Authors
Kállay, Géza
- Abstract
The article focuses on the understanding of sickness and its implication in tragedy in Charles Dickens's novels "King Lear" and "A Christmas Carol," in the perspective of Søren Kierkegaard's "Sickness Unto Deathl" The character Scrooge has a cold before the haunting of the apparitions while the character King Lear suffers from Hyterica passio eventually leading to madness. Kierkegaard showed that a person is capable of becoming who the person is meant to become in the face of Death.
- Subjects
DISEASES in literature; DEATH in literature; KING Lear (Play : Shakespeare); LEAR, King of England (Legendary character); DICKENS, Charles, 1812-1870
- Publication
Partial Answers, 2011, Vol 9, Issue 2, p267
- ISSN
1565-3668
- Publication type
Article