비극 King Lear에 구현된 희극적 위안(Comic Relief)에 관한 연구 = On the Comic Relief in King Lear

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Naturally, when a play was performed, the relationship between total effect of drama and audience is closely tied, whether by dramatic aspect or poetic justice and is also accompanied by psychological shift of the audience's emotion like a duck to water. It is very valuable for us to verify psychological shift of the audience's emotion through the concept of Comic Relief in the text.
When audiences are enjoying drama or text, the very psychological shift of the audience's emotion is through empathy or displacement of emotion and the audience's psychological correspondence in response to the developing drama. If the work is continually stood with high tension(psychological burden), the audience may experience heavy psychological anxiety or depression. These results are theoretically phobia and compulsion as we would expect. This abnormal psychology heavily influences the audience's psychological system.
If we fail to adapt from outer shocks whether dramatic accident or realistic one, three specific passive activities are shown as a specific types of confrontation: escape or evade (from given situation), attack(to others) and destruction (of something). When we enjoy King Lear, this assumption can be verified against tension from violence and fear given by tragedy. Accordingly, Shakespeare would get the most progress in the area of dramatic effect in adding pause, relaxation and relief of emotion to dramatic activities like fear, anxiety and tension. These psychological devices in the drama are defined as Comic Relief.
Comic Relief are diversified more in King Lear than any other Shakespeare's work. In the main plot, the Fool, who is always nearby king Lear, is necessary to him to improve the king's mental state and to relax dramatic tension. Although he is not a main character in the work, he always plays an important role as a confidant in the plot. In the sub-plot, Gloucester's suicide scene on the cliff of Dover beach is another Comic Relief scene as a happening in the play because it makes the audience laugh.
As we have discussed so far, using Comic Relief as a dramatic device can lead to be psychological release to the audience who are overwhelmed with fearful atmosphere. By this Comic Relief, the audience can enjoy tragic catharsis or reconciliation and dramatic pleasure. The Comic Relief is one of the artistic techniques devised by William Shakespeare.