... were most affected or who most developed mad characteristics throughout the play were King Lear, Edgar and the Fool. These three characters were consumed with an immense change of character throughout the play that ended up drastically changing their personality and ideals. In order for one to understand the real causes and ... in depth and explore the causes and consequences that lead each of these three characters to insanity. Of all Shakespeare's great tragic heroes, Lear is perhaps the least typical. As I have already read Macbeth and Hamlet, I can compare and distinguish Lear from...

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... . It is possibly for this reason that King Lear is such a natural play, as apposed to Macbeth or Hamlet which would be more super-natural. The vast majority of the play is set outside, which give Shakespeare the opportunity to draw his language from the characters" surroundings, which may also explain the extensive use of "nature" and "animal" imagery throughout. Lear ... , as G. Wilson Knight suggests, "The evil of mankind is often regarded as essentially a defacing of "nature" or human nature, as human nature is moral". However, many of the "evil" characters are the ones who act, most o...

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