Blindness in King Leer

The recognition of a person is influenced by the person's personality. Because of this subjectivity, there is often a discontinuity between the recognition of things and the reality. People often see things you want to see or listen to what you want to hear. Blindness is defined literally as invisible, but it is also defined as "lack of perception, consciousness or discrimination" (New Oxford American Dictionary). According to King Lear, Shakespeare shows that figurative vision is often more important than physical ability.

One of the most important themes in King Lear is blindness. In Lear's King, both Lear and Glouscter are blind. In this book, blindness is not a physical quality, but a mental flaw of some people. Lear King and Bak are good examples of blindness. The blindness of each role is the main reason they make the wrong decision. Look at the bad advantage; unfortunately he can not do it. At the beginning of the script Lear's first blindness occurred. First, he was easily deceived by two girls "goneril" and Regan, then he could not see Cordelia 's true love for him, so she was expelled from his kingdom. This is his first part. Mr. Li said in the first act of lines 304 - 306, "Because there is no such daughter, because her face can not be seen again," Leah's blindness appeared. King Lear banished Cordelia

King Lear was still blind about most play. The lack of his perception, understanding and guidance led him to make some bad choices, one of which was to expel his only honest daughter, Cordelia, from his kingdom. Leah's blindness also made him vulnerable to operations by the two eldest daughters Gonelil and Regan. Although Leah can see it with his own eyes, he can not judge the character, which indicates that he can not see his image. In contrast, Gloucester became physically blind, but learned the visual type that rear was missing. Like Leah, Gloucester 's blindness has made him easier to manipulate. Gloucester's illegal son Edmund convinced him that his legitimate son Edgar was planning the killing of his father. Although not true, Gloucester soon accepted it as a fact. Ironically, Gloucester blinded because of blindness. When Gloucester noticed the previous mistake he shouted "When I saw it, I stumbled" (Acts 1 and 20, line 20)