Blindness In King Lear By Traglear

Another folly displayed by Lear is that of blindness. He is ignorant to the true feelings and intentions of his closest family members. When Regan and Goneril shower him with false praises and declarations of their love, he egotistically believes them and bases his division of the kingdom on their deceitful words. Eventually, however, Lear's heart is broken when their true nature is exposed. Lear repeats his mistake of blindness when he fails to realize that Regan and Goneril are plotting against him. The two sisters deviously agree to "hit together" and take full control of the kingdom (1.1.332). Had Lear "seen" better, he would have realized the true intentions of his daughters and saved himself from tremendous grief.

What trait is Lear developing as a result of his daughter’s treatmentAct III, Scene I

In King Lear, Lear’s conflict of power with his daughters is brought about by his own arrogance, which flaws his judgement and propels his change of heart. When Lear parcels out his kingdom to his daughters, he finds the honesty of Cordelia’s praise to be ungrateful and

Due to this flaw, Lear has given way to the two older daughters to conspire against him.  Lear is finally thrown out of his daughters’ homes and left with a fool, a servant and a beggar. This is when Lear realizes the mistake that he has made and suffers the banishment of his two eldest daughters.  Lear is caught in a storm and begins to lose his sanity because he can not bear the treatment of his two daughters as well as the error he has made with Cordelia and Kent.  Lear also suffers from lack of rest when he is moving all over the place and the thing that breaks him is the death of his youngest daughter, Cordelia.  This suffering can be contrasted with other happier times like when Lear was still king and when he was not banished by his two daughters.

King Lear has a great struggle when it comes to being involved in a tragedy, he hates his only daughter that loves him and loves his other daughters who hate him. “...Lear struggles to locate himself within a vast and dimly perceptible environment…” (Bozio) King Lear has many issues, he ends up marrying off his daughter that truly loves him because she cannot or is unable to articulate how much she loves him in a better manner than her two older sisters who are lying. It only gets worse when the

He realizes that he has been arrogant and unlikable after his foolish mistake in banishing Cordelia and Kent. Not only is he humbled by his experience with his daughters, but he realizes that life doesn’t revolve around him. This is shown closer to the end of the Fourth Act when he admits that he is old and foolish; “I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less, And to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind” (IV, vii, 69-72). Lear understands his wrongs and continues to ask for mercy from the gods in his monologues. He tries to plead for forgiveness, in the end, hurting him even more, ironically.

When Lear and Cordelia finally reunited near the end of the play, Lear expressed his sorrow for what he had done. "You must bear with me, I pray you now, forget and forgive:/ I am old an foolish." ( 4, 7. 82 ) But it was too late, Lear's rashness and inability to see clearly had already cost him, and Cordelia their lives.

    In King Lear, the recurring images of sight and blindness associated with the characters of Lear and Gloucester illustrate the theme of self-knowledge and consciousness that exist in the play.

At the beginning of the play King Lear has more power than anyone else, the feeling of power made him think it was okay to ask his three daughters who loved him the most. When his youngest and favourite daughter Cordelia did not give him the answer he wanted by saying, “Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave / My heart into my mouth/ I love your majesty / According to my bond, no more nor less” (King Lear 1.1.91-93). he started lashing out. Lear clearly values Goneril and Regan fawning over him over Cordelia’s sincere honesty. Out of pride and anger, Lear banishes Cordelia, as well as Kent for defending her. Lear splits the kingdom in half to Goneril and Regan which leads to the deaths of many people in the play. Throughout the play he becomes increasingly shocked when people do not obey him the way they did before and the lack of respect he receives. With his loss of power Lear often responds to these problems with anger saying things like “My curses on her!” (2.4.138). about his own daughter. By the end of the play he recognizes that he takes responsibility for both his own problems and for those of others. King Lear’s actions were the first step to the plays tragic outcome.

His insecurities include his harsh decisions to prove his power regardless of the fact that he may be wrong, Secondly, he needs a great number of people -one hundred men to be exact- to hail his presence, Lastly, the division of his kingdom. Kent—one of Lear's loyal Earls— tries to prove Lear wrong in banishing Cordelia, though Kent knows that it is abhorred to tell the king he is false in any way. He does so regardless of the consequences, Lear then banishes Kent uncaring whether he was right or wrong, but because he has the power to do so. Lear has an entourage that go everywhere with him so that he can feel like the powerful man that he is supposed to be(1.4.248).

His ego blinds him so that he cannot see through the shallow oaths of his two eldest daughters, Goneril and Regan. Through their behaviour Lear is unable to see Cordelia’s honesty and that she truly loves him. when Cordelia professes her love to her father he was not impressed by her responses. He gave Cordelia another chance to win him over with flattery however she believed words could not express her love for him. This made Lear decision easy as to who he would divide his wealth too. As the play progresses, the (explain how daughters turned against him) this demonstrates Lear ignorance towards the fact that Goneril and Regan are trying to get rid of him. Lear lets his eyes deceive him all because he believed that his two daughters expressed their love more affectionately versus Cordelia. the fool states that even a man without his actual visual sight could “see” the truth in Lear’s situation by just using his sense of smell. The fool also makes a connection between foolishness and vision by saying anyone who follows Lear are blind as well as foolish because they still continue to follow his even after witnessing his fallen

In main plot Lear was been betrayed by false boosting of his two elder daughters Gorneril and Regan----at the same Lear un-trust the younger daughter Cordelia who married king of France though she was faithful and affectionate to her father. in progress of the story the clouds are clear to Lear with the mistreatment of servants and his two elder daughters he realized that they showered false love to grab the kingdom, by the time it was too late ,he was been forced exile and at last he became victim to the devil conspiracy of elder daughters. He lost younger daughter Cordelia and he became heartbroken. The same thing conveyed in the sub plot of king Lear , Gloucester who was also betrayed by his son and blind to see the faithful and affectionate son. Gloucester too pays as same as Lear was gifted by his two

Kent’s effort to steer Lear in the right direction backfires. Lear is offended by Kent’s attempt to make him go against his word and reverse the disownment on Cordelia. Lear, feeling his pride in jeopardy, goes into a fit of rage and banishes Kent for questioning his judgment:

Lear until halfway through the play, is un knowingly being played by his eldest daughters while everyone else around him is aware and tries to help him open his eyes. Lear believes that after being treated poorly by Goneril, he will be able to go to Regen’s house, where he will be treated better because he is un aware to the fact that at this time, they have both sided against their father. The fool says to Lear, “Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly. For though she’s as like this as a crab’s like an apple, yet I can tell what I can tell” (I.V. 12-14). Showing again, Lear’s blindness to his conflicts and dilemmas developing around him as he believes Regna will treat him with respect.

First of all, as the plays, develops we see how King Lear grants his kingdom to his three daughters. This is an example of how the king of a powerful kingdom sacrifices all what he once lived for. The king commits to give the most of his wealth to the daughter who says loves him the most, and this was his worst blunder. For instance, Cordelia, his youngest daughter, was in fact the one whom loved him the most, but she was realistic and said she would love her husband just as much. This leads King Lear to furiously make the abrupt decision of disowning her.