I love this play. It has always been my favorite work by Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's attention to human nature is so refreshing, and there's nothing like a good tragedy to put one's own life into perspective. As one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, King Lear holds many themes and avenues of discussion including:
- sanity and madness: pretended, catalysts, cures, in relation to age
- familial obligations: duty of parents to children, children to parents, spouses to each other
- blindness: proverbial, literal
- fools and kings: similarities and differences
- male wrath vs. female wrath: level of destruction, mercy and honor in revenge, lasting effects
- guilelessness and acceptance of certain characters in their roles
- love: parent to child, child to parent, spouse to spouse
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