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Blindness In Shakespeare's King Lear
KING LEAR Often how individuals appear in front of other people is different from who they really are. They can show the love and loyalty to their masters so they can get what they really want. In the play King Lear by Shakespeare, the topic of blindness occurs often. The theme of blindness is demonstrated by the biggest mistake that King Lear makes, by the disguise of Kent, and by Gloucester’s trust in Edmund. The biggest mistake of King Lear when he divides his kingdom among his three daughters, but he does not know that his blindness will lead him to be controlled by Goneril and Regan. Lear gets angry on Cordelia. King Lear divides her inheritance among his sisters, gives her to King of France to marry her without dowry, and disowns her. …show more content…
Gloucester trusts in Edmund, but he does not see that he wants to conquer on his title and make plans to let Gloucester looking for Edgar’s life. Edmund convinces his father that Edgar wants to kill him. Gloucester enrages and says: O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! Worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him. I’ll appre- hend him. Abominable villain! Where is he? (1.2.75-78)
This plan will let Edmund to inherit his land and the title Earl of Gloucester. Gloucester has arrested and bring to Cornwall where he gouges his eyes. He has shocked when he asks about his illegitimate son Edmund and Regan tells him that he is Gloucester’s betrayer. Cornwall’s servant gouges the other eye of Gloucester and then he throws outside of the castle. Gloucester is now in despair from his blindness after he does not see Edmund in his reality and his wish is to meet his son Edgar again. Gloucester says: I have no way, and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw. Full oft ‘tis seen Our means secure us, and our mere defects Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar, The food of thy abused father’s
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