LEC052005 AKSHAYA ANISHKUMAR. SIGNIFICANCE OF MADNESS IN KING LEAR

 Dec 24, 2020

Significance of Lear's madness in Shakespeare’s King Lear.

 

1.      What is Significance of Lear’s madness in King Lear.

·        The powerful and mighty King is deceived by the art of flattery and is at last caught by madness, this part of the play is very significant.

·        The situation of nature when he  leaves Goneril’s house corresponds to the situation of Lear’s mind at that time.

·        Lear’s growing madness also effects the people surrounding him who respond in different ways to his insanity trying to keep him safe.

·        The two mistakes he had done at the beginning of the play itself lead him to his madness, God pays to a person according to his duty.

·          At the end the mistake that he did comes for his help, Cordelia succeeds in curing her father from his madness at least temporarily.

 

2.      Critically acknowledge the significance of Lear’s madness.

        

·        In King Lear, Shakespeare has given fullest expression to the strongest passions by which man can be agitated.

·        There is no human emotion stronger and more powerful than the Passion of madness. We find Lear step by step driven to wild raving.

·        Besides the artistic arch like progress in the Passion of Lear is not in complete possession of all his mental faculties.

·        The progress of madness is clearly marked off by several external incidents.

·        The inability to perceive a clear path of duty  and the sense of failure just rack his brain.

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