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King Lear (play)
Title: King Lear (play)
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 633 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
King Lear (play)
In the play King Lear, Lear reaches old age without achieving any wisdom. This statement is very true, many evidences can be found throughout the acts. For example: Lear is ignorant of the truth, he only hears what he wants to hear and he makes several rash decisions that leads to his downfall. Although Lear achieved very little wisdom over his lifetime, he did learn allot about humility, which is defined as humbleness or meekness. …showed first 75 words of 633 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 633 total…duties back as are right fit, obey you, love you, and most honor you. Why have my sisters husbands if they say they love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, that lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, to love my father all."
Shakespeare William, King Lear (New York: Bantam Books, 1988) p. 5. Ibid, p6.
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