Why Caged Bird Sings

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreamshis shadow shouts on a nightmare screamhis wings are clipped and his feet are tiedso he opens his throat to sing 

The caged bird singswith a fearful trillof things unknownbut longed for stilland his tune is heardon the distant hillfor the caged birdsings of freedom.(Maya Angelou “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”)

No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison. 

We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage. 

When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down 

And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, 

And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh 

At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues 

Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too- 

Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out- 

And take upon 's the mystery of things, 

As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out, 

In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones 

That ebb and flow by th' moon.

Why Do Caged Birds Sing?

Talk about a truly changed character, Lear has gone from a prideful foolish old man. To one with wisdom and age.  Throughout the play he has refused all reason! When faced with the reason of true love versus the empty flattering words of love, he banished the source of true love "Hence and avoid my sight!" to save the image of his pride. He must not be wrong! Later when all power resides in his two evil daughters, he is faced with his will and the power of his daughters--he runs away into the night, the storm of all storms in order to hold to his will and his word. "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout .../Singe my white head!" He would rather face nature head on than admit he was wrong, he still believes that pride will make him happy!  

Then why do birds sing? 

They sing for each other, they are the closest to humans than any other species.  They use song to communicate with each other and like us it is a language that is learned from each other.  In a cage with everything removed and his pride crushed, why will Lear sing? Because he is with Cordelia, he has finally realized through all hell that it is the ones that love him most that make him happy.  If he is with her in jail, he has cause to sing, to talk, and a reason for joy!  Without having the 'world' they can have the world.  The mysteries of the world they can unfold, stories can be spoken, songs sung, and laughter had, as long as they are together.  He finally sees that his world, his joy, and his happiness are in the one who loved him most.  Happiness is found in others that truly love, and not in pride and power and worldly possessions.

They will sing together of freedom, of the outside world, of prayer, and God.  And together they will be happy.  ...Caged Birds Sing for Each Other...

Rap up on Lear // Tue and Me

Original Note:
TUE:
The essence of King Lear, in my view, ... Lear is distorted emotion (he doesn't understand the developments that take place around him, which confuses him to the point of desperation). What I mean by that is that, by this perspective, the character of Lear specifically represents distorted emotion, one of the consequences of which is that he lacks the rational attitude to be open to education (in contrast, his daughters represent reason, but of a loveless kind). Lear's tragedy, to a large extent, is his inability to understand what is going on, although several characters, incl. Gloucester, attempt to explain it to him. If we are consistent in seeing Lear as distorted emotion, then his death is not a tragedy in itself, but the end of tragedy;

Truth Spoken in Jest // Psychology

So i wanted to add a little more backing behind my idea of the prophetic jester.

What is the purpose of speaking truth in jest? Why dose one do it?
It turns out that it has to deal with conflict.  Wither we are dealing with members of our family, co-workers, or just customers, eventualy challenges and conflicts arise.  We have a few ways to react but the most common are to try and avoid the situation, pretend it isn't happening, we can stand toe to toe with it, or more like the first we can try and save our face.

Saveing face often refferse to our tendancy to be more concerned about how we are perceived that saying what needs to be said.

...we may err in saying too little when things go wrong. ... This is especially so during what could be called a "courting period." Instead of saying things directly, we often try to hint. But the honeymoon is likely to end sooner or later. At some point this "courting behavior" often gets pushed aside out of necessity. We may find it easier to sweep problems under the psychological rug until the mound of dirt is so large we cannot help but trip over it.  Gregorio Billikopf

 Ultimately the jest allows both parties to choose wither or not they want to continue feeding the conflict.  It allows the truth to be spoken plainly while allowing the speaker to save face.  It the offending partly is ready to change he has the option of changing while if choosing not to hear the speaker still appears a good person.

In Lear the jester is allowed to speak the plain blunt truth and remain in Lear's company because the truth is spoken in jest.  The truth is allowed to work in Lear till he is finally ready to change.  However, the fight it out approach, that Cordelia and Kent take just end up getting them banished because Lear will throw out the baby with the bath water at that point to save admitting he is wrong.

O God of Battles! Steel my Soldiers' Hearts

Possess them not with fear; take from them now
The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
Pluck their hearts from them. Not to-day, O Lord O, not to-day...

There is nothing more stirring than to see a commander speak in light of his troops, to see one painted in the colors of war, empowered with rank and glory speak passionately a speech from the dust, a speech asking God to inspire the hearts of his troops. HIS troops.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother;

We watched a solider one who has been called to die for his friends--for the ones he loves--We watched him and his commander give these lines, the firmament in all it's glory is not arrayed in more glory than the two of these...  Hecuba is someone to them! 

Those who knew Shakespeare had these lines memorized! This is the power of Shakespeare!

COMPLETE REPORT

PHOTOS: BYU ROTC -- OUR BROTHERS NOVEMBER 17th, 2011

Turing Machine Lear

Turing Machine Gloucester

KingLear.cpp ~To Suffer Algorithm~