Essays on King Lear

The Redemption of King Lear by Cherrell Guilfoyle and King Lear and Essential Humanism by Jonathan Dollimore are two critical essays that analyze the theme of suffering in the play, King Lear, into two distinct and intertwining aspects. Cherrell Guilfoyle- an honorary research associate at...

As discussed in the South Park essay, Socrates makes the claim that a virtuous person cannot be harmed. This is, in part, because the practice of philosophy and dialogue helps Socrates to be true to himself. In the play, King Lear by William Shakespeare, King...

Loyalty is a factor that determines the way one’s life may go. Depending on who the individual is loyal to, it can lead them down a dangerous path or one that is great, but not without consequence. In William Shakespeare’s King Lear loyalty plays a...

King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s famous tragedies written in the 17th century. In his play, he depicts the life of two fathers going through different, yet very similar situations, which greatly influences their decisions, and later, their lives. King Lear, the protagonist, is shown...

There has always been a demand for literary scholars to understand the tragedy in literature so that it perhaps can be understood in reality. An exploration of how the tragic form unfolds itself, during the Reformation period, through words and images elicits curiosity, chiefly when...

Madness and nature often goes in the same path in strange ways. Nature can lead man to madness and madness can take a man to nature. In Shakespeare’s King Lear, both of these situations prove true. William Shakespeare was one of the most intuitive and...

The story of King Lear is about a king who decides to step down from his throne and evenly divide the kingdom among his daughters. But before that happens he will put them through a test, asking each daughter how much she loves him. Goneril...

Through King Lear’s carefully articulated metaphor, he states that the rich are able to break the “lance of justice” just by being rich and powerful, whereas those armed in rags (alluding to the poor), are easily pierced by “a pigmy’s straw” because “through tatter’d clothes...