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King Lear and the Earl of Gloucester

 

Disguised Kent was allowed to serve Lear again as a servant. This also shows Lear blindness he could not distinguish that the new servant was his loyal Kent.
             These display that his mental blindness and lack of sight pull him to the downfall. He let's his anger control his judgment by judging people from the current situation and ignore the things they have done in the past. As we can see, he get a chance to change his decision but rather listen to people who trying to help him, he banished them for questioning in him. This leaves him surrounded by evil people.
             In Act 1, scene2, show the parallel structure of the subplot and the main plot.
             The Earl of Gloucester's sin is in his flesh, as we know from the plot that he enjoy having sex with Edmond's mother. As the result of his action she gave him a bastard Edmond.
             Gloucester was being tricked by his illegitimated son Edmond through the fake letter, that his legitimated son, Edgar plotting to kill him.
             Gloucester undoubtedly believe in the letter and traces his loyal Edgar. "O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! Worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him. I'll apprehend him. Abominable villain! Where is he?".
             At this point, it is clear that Gloucester and Lear were making mistake from their decision due to their mental blindness. They could not perceive between good and evil, so they both deceived by their evil children.
             The mental blindness of both fathers made them banishing the loyal children and honor the wicked ones. This will lead two sinners to their punishment in the middle of the play.
             As a tragedy play, King Lear was not performing for century. Moreover, there are many people tried to rewrite it giving the happy ending to the play.
             King Lear is a story of intense suffering, people think it is too violence, because the suffering in the play is something people did not expected to happened.


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