Monday, March 3, 2008

King Lear

This blog is about King Lear becuase we are suppose to write a blog about the play. I want to talk about Lear because even though he is a selfish person I think he is intersting. I feel bad for him becuase he has two daughthers that are not respectable. Cordelia is his only daughter that truly loves him, and it is a shame that she did not just humor him by saying " i love you more than anything in this world including ice cream." Lear goes crazy and his crazyness is what i want to talk about.
I think it is understandable that Lear goes crazy. It is basic psychology that tells us why Lear goes crazy. I believe he goes into a deep depression that is just compounded and made worse by everything encounters after he gives up his land. I think Shakespeare wanted to make Lear look insane, but also portray him as a normal person because normal people have been known to "snap" and go crazy after a significant event. I would say going from a king to nothing is pretty significant. Lear goes crazy because he has nothing to lose by acting insane. His life has gone to ruins and his two daughters are bitches who have plotted to get rid of him even though he raised them and has given them everything.
Lear is just a normal person who is obcessed with himself. At first I did not like him because i thought he was to cocky. Then after he lost everything i felt bad for him because of what he had to deal with in such a short amount of time. Then once I found out Cordelia was going to come back into the story and help him i saw a light at the end of the tunnel for Lear, but this was put out by all the other bad things happening in the book. At the end i thought it was somewhat sad what happened, but i was expecting something sad to happen because after all it is a Shakespeare tragedy. King Lear is definately not my favorite play because it is not my type of play, but it really was not that bad to read. I kinda liked Hamlet more than Lear because he was more outgoing, but both are not bad characters to base a play on.
I really don't know of anything else i want to talk about because the only aspects of King Lear that i found interesting were the secret plots and how Lear went insane.