![]() ![]() ![]() Struck by disbelief that his beloved daughters do not truly love him, Lear starts losing his sanity. Upon attaining wealth and land, he soon becomes a nuisance to his daughters who humiliate and discard him. Soon afterward, King Lear discovers that his elder daughter’s words were mere flattery done to attain power. She eventually marries the French king who later leads his army against her two sisters. In response, her father disowns and banishes her. However, the last born daughter despises the phoniness of her sisters and refuses to pander to her father. The reason is that they show a relentless loyalty and love towards their father through superficial flattery. Eventually, he only subdivides his kingdom between two of his eldest daughters. However, first, he puts them through a test by asking each of them to declare how much they love him. Lear retires from the throne and decides to divide the kingdom among his three daughters. This play studies the correlation between appearances and reality as well as the result of putting too much trust in appearance than reality. ![]() This occurs after his disposal of his kingdom through bequests to two of his daughters due to their perpetual flattery. It is a depiction of the slow descent into insanity of the main character King Lear. King Lear is a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare. ![]()
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