Sociology 2239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Goneril, Sequent
23 Jul 2015
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In shakespeare"s play king lear, there are several characters who do not see the reality of their environment. Both characters inhabit a blindness to the world around them. Lear does not see clearly the truth of his daughters" mentions, while gloucester is also blinded by edmond"s betrayal. This failure to see reality leads to lear"s intellectual blindness, which is his insanity, and. Gloucester"s physical blindness that leads to his trusting tendencies. They both experience physical disease and, and achieve inner awareness at the end as their surreal blindness" are lifted through self-knowledge and then realize the truth. Their perceptions of themselves become accurate due to their gaining of self-knowledge. Both lear and gloucester are characters used by shakespeare to show the relevance of having a clear vision in life. In king lear, the recurring images of sight and blindness are associated with the characters lear and gloucester.
