Term Papers on King Lear

Term Paper Title	King Lear
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King Lear

King Lear, like many of Shakespeare’s other plays, is a tragedy. The main character learns a lesson about life that he or she had never known. The price of this lesson is usually a person or object close to the main character, and in some cases, even the life of the main character, this happens quite often in some of Shakespeare’s other plays. An example of this is when Romeo loses Juliet to suicide. Shakespeare, in his writing, usually included several themes in his plays. Two of the main themes in this play are hubris and humility.
Hubris, or overweening pride, is one of the main themes in King Lear. Lear is probably most affected by this disease out of all the characters. Lear demonstrated great hubris in dealing with his daughters. The old king called his daughters to him one day so that he could divide up his kingdom when he would die. Goneril and Regan, hid eldest daughters, proclaimed how they each loved their father and would do anything for him. They greatly exaggerated their feelings for their father and won great pieces of land for their false words. Lear took those words for the truth and denied all else. This relates to overwhelming pride because Lear did not see the real motivation behind his daughters words, land. He assumed that they loved him with all their heart because he had put a roof over their head and the daughters had grown up with every advantage. Lear failed to see what kind of real people his two oldest daughters were, conniving and selfish. Another case of overweening pride was how Lear treated his youngest daughter, Cordelia, with contempt. After Lear had divided up land for his two oldest daughters, he turned to Cordelia and waited for her elaborate speech on how much she loved him. Cordelia, unlike her sisters, told her father how she truly loved him, but refused to grovel for land. Cordelia freely admitted how much she loved her father, but that her heart would be shared with her future husband. With this simple statement, the reader could see that Cordelia loved her father and respected Lear enough to tell him the truth about how she fe...

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