Comparing King Lear And The Fisher King

Both King Lear and the Fisher King are separated from their familiar world as a result of their mistakes which were motivated my blind pride and vanity. When King Lear divides his kingdom, based on flattery Kent warns him about his mistakes, however, stubborn Lear says, “The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft.” (Shakespeare, 1.1.145). In this line, Lear is regarding himself as the high hierarchy and is too arrogant and proud to listen to those below him. Likewise to King Lear, the Fisher King faces separation from the familiar world of family and companionships, when he is visited by a sacred vision to prove his title as king. When the narrator says, “And in this state of radical amazement he felt, for a brief moment, not like a boy,