Category: King Lear

The Values of Tragedy At the climax of every storyline, a hero emerges to settle the conflict and bring issues to light. This hero will oftentimes endure pain and suffering for the greater good. In the case of characters within King Lear the term Tragic Hero is portrayed through the king himself. Through analyzing the…

Blindness is a physical state or condition of being unable to see, however, it can also be described mentally as a lack of perception, lack of awareness, or ignorance in judgment. In Shakespearean terms regarding this play, blindness is deemed as a mental flaw rather than a physical impairment. The most prominent theme in this…

William Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is one of his four great tragedies and one of his most acclaimed plays. His greatest tragedies come from his second and third periods. Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet come under the second period whereas the third period includes Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony, and Cleopatra. Self-delusion is the…

Thomas Edison, an American inventor, and businessman, once said, Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time (brainyquote.com). In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Lear is guilty of being quick to give up on others, one of them being his daughter, Cordelia. In a…

Would you ever want to get revenge on society, because of how it treated you? In the play King Lear, there were many social injustices going on. Characters were treated unfairly, and it drove them to get revenge. The shadow, Edmund, was Gloucesters illegitimate son. He wanted to get back at society for labeling him…