Examples Of Mental Blindness In King Lear

Mental blindness? Mental blindness is when an individual is unable to attribute metal states to self and others. What are values? Values have a major influence on a person’s behavior and attitude and serves as broad guidelines in all situations. This relates to the play King Lear by William Shakespeare because blindness and values were themes that were seen throughout to course of this play. Ignorance and gullibility are flaws that cause people to focus on pointless things rather than the more valuable things in life. People’s flaws blind them into prioritizing unimportant things. This eventually leads to them realizing that valuing inner qualities & characteristics is more important.
In the play King Lear by Shakespeare, King Lear’s tragic
He’s been left out in the storm with nowhere to go and is begging to go mad. After being kicked out of his kingdom Lear has a realization that he was ignorant and unaware of what was going on around him. King Lear was blind to Kent’s real intentions and what Kent was really trying to show Lear. Kent begins by saying:
Kent: The same; your servant Kent. Where is your servant Caius?
Lear: he’s a good fellow, I can tell you that. He’ll strike, and quietly too. He’s dead and rotten.
Kent: no, my good lord; I am the very man- […] is this how I would do it if I’m skipping someone’s line?
Kent: That from your first of difference and decay/ have followed your sad steps
Lear: You are welcomed hither (5.3.282-289)

This quote is significant to Lear’s blindness and lack of knowledge. Lear now shows that he really didn’t understand the meaning of Kent’s loyalty and why Kent has been so supportive of him. When Lear says that Kent is welcomed, he finally realizes why Kent had stuck by his side the whole time despite what Lear had said to him. Lear was oblivious to what had been happening around him and now understands that he banished all the people that cared about his well-being and him making the right decisions as a