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A 4 page paper which examines Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and illustrates how King Lear is a tragedy in many different ways. Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
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and lies between family members and the pursuit of selfish desires at the cost of the lives of others. It is a story that tells of the sad realities associated
with making the wrong decisions through ignorance, and generally presents us with almost every possible tragic reality. In the following paper we examine tragedy as it involves individuals, human
cruelty and suffering, family issues, and politics. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual is King
Lear himself. He is a man who is somewhat arrogant in his position as king, not an unheard of reality, and a man who is looking to the future. He
looks to the future through his three daughters, imagining that his favorite, the youngest, will respond as he desires. However, because she does not coddle him and essentially suck up
to him, giving him honesty instead, he dismisses her and becomes a tragic figure. He loses everything because of his ignorance. King Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, suffers the most as
she is a truthful and loyal woman. We see this in the very beginning of the story as she once states, aside so that no one will hear, "What shall
Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming a powerful woman as the Queen of France.
However, when she comes across her father once more, when he is mad and lost and truly a tragic figure, she does the right thing and stands by his side.
However, by standing at his side she suffers a fate she does not deserve and yet she does so graciously, "We are not the first Who, with best meaning, have
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