Human beings experience strong emotions that dramatically affect the outcome of their lives. Two tragedies, King Lear and King Hamlet of Denmark, are about the flaws of the main characters that brings jealousy between families. Both of the main characters have flaws, that will lead them to their downfall. Both of them are mistaken and through a long process, they learn from them, even if it is too late. King Lear is insecure about himself and Prince Hamlet is a hesitant person, this is the downfall for Hamlet and Lear.
Lear has the highest rank a person can have. Lear is an old man, an old king that has ruled his kingdom well. He is troubled by insecurity that ends in lacking control and facing his end of his life. Lear has pride and …show more content…
As though my sometime daughter” (KL 1.1 116 - 119)
Lear says that he will treat Cordelia as one of the barbarous Scythian, that commits savage acts. The only honest daughter, Cordelia, gets none of his wealth and cut her off entirely. Despite of losing everything, She refuses to make a big deal about the love she feels towards her dad. She stays true to authenticity. She was not angry on what the King decided, she was mad about the dishonesty of her sister toward their father. She is sent to France for not being able to express herself and say what the King wanted to hear. She was the only genuinely one with an authentic form of love towards the Kings and the one that was willing to do anything to take care of him. She is sent to leave the country to get marry with the King of France.
“Oh reason not the need! Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, man’s life is cheap as beat’s. Thou gorgeous wear ‘ st, which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need- you heavens, give me that patience, patience I need.” (KL 2.4 266 - 272)
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His daughters did everything to infuriate him. He sees how evil they are and curses them. Although he had expected to remain in authority, he is no longer respected by his daughters. He is stripped of his money and power by his daughters. Goneril and Regan become corrupted by Lear deciding to divide his Kingdom. The daughters become deceitful. He curses his daughters, because they are trying to take his knights and servants away from him. They are a representation of power that Lear has left. The knights and the servants also represent the King as the person he is. The treatment of his daughter make him crazy and make him lose the little authority and power he has left. They were the only people that would listen to him. Lear is a man driven to insanity due to him not treating his daughters the same.
He lacks good judgment and his world fall apart. His suffering transforms him and he became another man. He becomes aware of the suffering of mankind as well as his own. Lear’s suffering is so intense, that he goes into depression, and it drives him mad. He loses his sanity. King Lear asked for Cordelia’s forgiveness, when she is about to die. King Lear dies by seeing his daughter hung. Lear himself dies, heartbroken by the cruel experiences he has gone through. He went from being foolish and arrogant to being compassionate and
Lear has the highest rank a person can have. Lear is an old man, an old king that has ruled his kingdom well. He is troubled by insecurity that ends in lacking control and facing his end of his life. Lear has pride and …show more content…
As though my sometime daughter” (KL 1.1 116 - 119)
Lear says that he will treat Cordelia as one of the barbarous Scythian, that commits savage acts. The only honest daughter, Cordelia, gets none of his wealth and cut her off entirely. Despite of losing everything, She refuses to make a big deal about the love she feels towards her dad. She stays true to authenticity. She was not angry on what the King decided, she was mad about the dishonesty of her sister toward their father. She is sent to France for not being able to express herself and say what the King wanted to hear. She was the only genuinely one with an authentic form of love towards the Kings and the one that was willing to do anything to take care of him. She is sent to leave the country to get marry with the King of France.
“Oh reason not the need! Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, man’s life is cheap as beat’s. Thou gorgeous wear ‘ st, which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need- you heavens, give me that patience, patience I need.” (KL 2.4 266 - 272)
Lockwood …show more content…
His daughters did everything to infuriate him. He sees how evil they are and curses them. Although he had expected to remain in authority, he is no longer respected by his daughters. He is stripped of his money and power by his daughters. Goneril and Regan become corrupted by Lear deciding to divide his Kingdom. The daughters become deceitful. He curses his daughters, because they are trying to take his knights and servants away from him. They are a representation of power that Lear has left. The knights and the servants also represent the King as the person he is. The treatment of his daughter make him crazy and make him lose the little authority and power he has left. They were the only people that would listen to him. Lear is a man driven to insanity due to him not treating his daughters the same.
He lacks good judgment and his world fall apart. His suffering transforms him and he became another man. He becomes aware of the suffering of mankind as well as his own. Lear’s suffering is so intense, that he goes into depression, and it drives him mad. He loses his sanity. King Lear asked for Cordelia’s forgiveness, when she is about to die. King Lear dies by seeing his daughter hung. Lear himself dies, heartbroken by the cruel experiences he has gone through. He went from being foolish and arrogant to being compassionate and