King Lear Essay

In the first panel, I decided to symbolize through pictures the first important factor that happened within the play of King Lear. In the first panel I drew a picture of King Lear, who in the panel is stepping down from his throne. He decides to step down from the throne due to old age, and wants to hand down his power between his three daughters, intending that the kingdom will improve if he’s not in power anymore. He spoke: “The map there. Know we have divided in three our kingdom, and tis’ our

Morals contribute to the process of thinking and committing actions. Looking from a moral criticism perspective, Shakespeare's King Lear breaks many morals that today’s society values. Breaking these valued morals leads to madness that encompasses the characters’ minds and “eliminates all rational thoughts” (Bali). In Shakespeare’s King Lear, blindness results in misjudgments, leaving the person to decide to either change for the better or allow stubbornness to overrule. As the play progresses,

result, they lose sight of the significant aspects that surround them. In the tragic drama King Lear, Shakespeare’s main character, Lear, faced many difficulties, mainly because he was burdened with a major flaw that obscured his ability to recognize the truth. Fortunately, Lear had an ally nearby: his fool, who offered him undivided guidance while continuing to confront his struggles. In the process, Lear attained a considerable sense of self awakening. In the play, Shakespeare emphasizes that when

ignorance of the situation eventually ruins both his and Edgar’s life, and that exhibits the prevalent theme of King Lear that blindness to the truth can destroy lives. As the story progresses, the theme of blind trust continues. Edgar lives in disguise to escape his father’s wrath, and the lives of all the characters continuously worsen due to King Lear and Gloucester’s ignorance. Lear gets kicked out of his kingdom and lives as a homeless man and Edgar disguises himself as “Poor Tom” pretends to

William Shakespeare’s King Lear the theme of sanity and corruption is developed through the motif of wisdom and age to illustrate the idea that older people are not always wiser than younger people. This play flips the idea of wisdom in relation to age on its head, which makes the plot all the more interesting. In King Lear two of the older characters, King Lear and Gloucester, fight with their own sanity not only in the eyes of their hateful children but also from their own view. Lear says this very

young age. This prior teaching is done to ensure proper etiquette which will lead to a successful future. However, this idea is proven wrong in Shakespeare’s play, King Lear. Misery can envelop any character,regardless of their educational background. Everyone is vulnerable to facing despair as it is brought upon by their emotions. In King Lear, sentiments are the reason behind the characters’ suffering. It is not dependant on the morality of their intentions nor upbringing, but their feelings which cause

When Lear says, “I am a man more sinned against than sinning” (3,2, 58-59), he thinks that other people have done him more wrong than he has done wrong himself. I do not agree that King Lear has been more sinned against than sinning. The irrational actions he makes himself and his fatal flaws is what leads to other people doing him wrong. His “sinning” is shown when he divides the kingdom, disowns Cordelia, banishes Kent and disrespects his daughters. He made his big mistake when he gave away all

myself being one of those many people. This same dilemma is noticeable in the play King Lear by William Shakespeare. In the play, the characters seemed to mostly express their emotions through their action instead of vocalizing it which seemed to lead to the majority of their demise’s. Personally, I see my own downfall as a result of the way I handle my emotions and feelings. Although not all characters in King Lear, in my opinion, were guided

lead the blind” (4.1.46-47). In the tragedy King Lear, blindness is a key theme that is repeatedly mentioned and represented in many different forms. Throughout the novel, blindness is most often developed in the forms of mental and physical blindness. For King Lear and Gloucester specifically, blindness leads them to decisions that they will later regret in the play, and Gloucester’s actual blindness is a mirror image of Lear’s spiritual blindness. King Lear’s main plot and Gloucester’s sub-plot

also on earth, (Shakespeare,1966:122). While Cordelia's honest love to her father was beyond words; therefore, she answered ‘‘Nothing my lord’’. Her love cannot be considered by word. She was true in every word she had said but King Lear wanted to hear what he wishes: LEAR: Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again. CORDELIA: I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your