![]() ![]() The king is blinded by his egoism and thirst for being praised. Pondering into the inner world of this character, the audience may notice why he is so sightless. ![]() King Lear appears in front of readers as a man who seems to be blind. Although Shakespeare teaches his audience this lesson in kind of over-color manner, this peculiarity of his tragedy only adds to its value because, in this way, the author manages to touch more hearts. Shakespeare’s “King Lear” is a classic example of literary work demonstrating that things are often not as they appear to the onlooker. It seems that if men possessing power today would pay attention to the wisdom of centuries containing in Shakespeare’s “King Lear”, the world could become a better place. They have also reaped them by losing their very lives under tragic circumstances (Shakespeare 103). ![]() In his tragedy, the great man of literary art shares the simple truth with the world amounting to the well-known idiom “whatever a man sows, he will reap it.” Regan and Goneril have sown enmity and cruelty. ![]() The outcomes for Shakespeare’s personages are tragic. Similar to Regan and Goneril, political leaders of nowadays are trying all means possible to gain more power at any cost and do not care about people, not even the closest people like the father in Regan’s and Goneril’s case. ![]()
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