Blindness vs. Sight In the Shakespeare play, King Lear, some of the characters show that they have knowledge of what is going happening around them and some, unfortunately, do not see that the ones they love are mischievous and only out to get what they have. One character that is mostly viewed as the blind one in this play is King Lear himself. Lear’s blindness to the truth and to others that tried to …showed first 75 words of 1234 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1234 total…and himself die in the end. Lear was blind to Cordelia’s love and to his other daughters empty hearts. He was blind from the beginning and through his sufferings, he came to realize his mistakes. He realized that Cordelia truly loved him and his other two daughters just 7wanted his kingdom. However, through Lear’s mistakes, some good came out of it such as he became humble a humble man. Bibliography Skaespeare, King Lear