The Fool

also creates theories. In the play King Lear, the fool acted as Lear's conscience, served as comic relief, and wisdom. Even though all of these traits are amazing the fool disappears. His disappearance is unclear because he states he will always stay by Lear. The disappearance of the fool shows he is useless now. The fool left because he became hopeless, cannot bear to see Lear as an actual fool and the fool cannot provide any wisdom anymore. The fool acted as Lear's conscience, he would let Lear decide

equivalent importance to the plot. Likewise, within King Lear, attention towards the secondary characters is often negated in favour of the more prevalent primary characters. Despite this lack of attention, however, the secondary characters of Cornwall, the fool and Kent all contribute extensively to the plot through their unique personalities and actions. The character of Cornwall displays a wanton disregard for human dignity, enabling him to transform the malevolent will of the other characters into

would not speak louder than her words, for when she says nothing, she receives nothing from her father. However, Lear’s Fool is treated much differently than Cordelia: he speaks just as much truth and wisdom as Cordelia, but unlike Cordelia, Fool is able to get away with criticizing Lear and still keeping his favor. Fool tells

Themes of Nothing and Blindness in King Lear Many of the passages of King Lear, particularly those between the characters of Lear, Kent, the Fool, and Cordelia, all share a common theme. The theme of nothing, as well as the theme of blindness, echoes throughout the play. King Lear is in many ways about nothing. However, Kent, the Fool, and Cordelia make him more than nothing by serving faithfully, speaking bluntly, and loving unconditionally. The first occurrence of the imagery of nothing takes

When this attitude of respect and honesty is not portrayed, it is not looked upon as odd or out of character, it is almost normalized. The king goes mad, Kent breaks a stereotype, Gloucester is naïve nature, Edmund as a master of manipulation, and the fool portraying the most knowledgeable of all. The first character to whose attitude portrays this oddity is the king. King Lear goes mad, he completely loses all sense of sanity he had

One of the most famous and comedic lines the Fool says in King Lear is “Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise” referring to our societal assumption that old people are wise. (1.5.38-39). But the Fool bluntly points out that King Lear is not wise in how he splits his kingdom. King Lear’s fatal mistake is that he believes that someone’s love can be measured by words. In Act 3 Scene 2, King Lear has his pivot point where he begins to learn about real love. He is old, and now is becoming

he is a very wise and intelligent character in the play. His intellect is concealed by a very strong facade of wit and humor. Feste throughout the play is very independent. His independence helps uncover the morals of other characters in the play. A fool, defined in the 13th century, is defined as a “silly or stupid person”. Feste, being labeled as a jester or clown, is ironically very wise and intelligent. He is labeled as a stock character that helps build upon the main characters in the play. Feste’s

Lear's Character in William Shakespeare's Play The view of Lear being bent on his own destruction from the beginning of the play is an acceptable claim. The way he begins in the play, dividing up his country for his daughters, in essence, this spelt disaster. Unlike other renaissance dramatists, who used ‘mad scenes’ for comic use, Shakespeare seems intent on

themselves than they previously had before. This sense occurs within major characters like Edmund, the character lacking self worth from the very beginning, and Edgar, the figure who is left to recover all order in the end, to minor characters such as the Fool. In this classic piece of literature, the theme of identity manifests itself as a common concern in story through the motif of the repetition of the word “nothing.” Edmund, the illegitimate son, the bastard child, is the character in the play that

humor can come from unwise characters, or fools. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a fictional play by William Shakespeare, two themes are present, love and humor. These themes both create and dismantle relationships throughout the story. As three different groups of characters, the nobles, fairies, and actors interact, romance and comedy are displayed. A fool is a person who makes poor decisions, and lets other people take advantage of them easily. The biggest fool in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Bottom