Shakespeare's King Lear

William Shakespeare's King Lear had downfalls in character which later on

caused him to suffer extreme consequences. if anyone knows the true meaning of

suffering it is King Lear.

King Lear's downfalls are his pride, selfishness, and blindness to truth.

Pride as one of Lear's first downfalls, in the beginning Lear disowns his lovely daughter

Cordelia, because Lear is to blind to realize that cordelia loves her father for who he is

and NOT what he has in his possession. Lear sees his daughters for what they have as

far as quantity not quality. This is his downfall of selfishness. Lear offers his two

greedy and selfish daughters, Coneril, and Regan his entire kingdom, simply because

he is so damn conceded and thinks he is so great that he can not possibly see anyone

not loving him, and what he owns as far as land and power. His greedy daughters

realize this and then decide to kiss a little of their father's butt.......

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Title: King Lear
Approximate Word Count: 764
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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