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King Lears Emotional Stages
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King Lear’s Emotional Stages
Throughout the play King Lear, Shakespeare portrays King Lear as a
normal human being with a very complex and fragile character. In this very
sentimental play, Shakespeare places Lear through the worst anguish of his
life (Bruhl .... Middle of Essay .... he states, “My wits begin to
turn.”( III.ii.67). Lear’s suffering is primarily mental and climaxes when
Regan throws him out in the storm (Bruhl 317). The main mistakes appears “
as he [Lear] enters the phantasmagoria [fantastic imagery, as in a dream] of
his madness”( Halio 192). This type of thinking makes Lear become mentally
unstable.
One can attribute King Lear’s main mental anguishes to the direct act
of wrong doing towards him. The wrong doings cause so much suffering
because it comes from the two people he thought loved him more than any
person on earth, Goneril and Regan. These ungrateful daughte ....
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