Foolishness in Shakepeare’s king lear

King Lear is considered to be Shakespe ares best artistic work. wee on, the readers glean the chimericalness of the king as he bequeaths his riches and his ground to his deceitful daughters. This is his desperate attempt to know who loves him. Thus, we see his foolishness as he draws out testimonies of his daughters love for him. For entirely his wealth and riches, he is bereft of the love of his daughters. His glaring foolishness is seen as he bequeaths his kingdom to the nonpareil who would speak of her undying love for him. Thus, we see that only a foolish man would do such actions for naturally, his daughters, who want the material things will run him the accolades he so desperately wants to hear.King Lear is foolish not to know the prudence of Cordelias love for him beca substance abuse he measures it only with the words that will get it on from her mouth. He asks them to match each others pronounce custodyts of their love for him, aver me, my daughters,- / Since now w e will divest us both of rule, / Interest of territory, cares of state,- / Which of you shall we ordinate doth does love us King Lear intimately? That we our largest bounty may extend / Where temper doth with merit challenge (Act I, Sc i, Ln 47-53).King Lear should have observed more the actions of her daughters preferably of their spoken adulations. He is taken aback by Cordelias retort Nothing, my lord (Line 89). He then prods her to continue yet, she does not succumb to the pretenses that the slip requires of her and declares no high praises and love, which prods the king to conclude, Nothing will come of goose egg and in a pitiable state urges her to speak again (Line 92). For his Cordelia lacks that crafty and oily art / To speak and purpose not since what I good intend, / Ill dot before I speak- (Line 227).This foolishness is again gleaned as the King thinks that when he gives out his kingdom, he shakes all cares and business from our age, conferring them on younger s trengths patch we unburdened crawl to death (Act I, Sc i, Ln 38-41). Nothing could be farther from the truth, for this just makes him worry no end that Cordelia does not love him at all.The story of King Lear illustrates clearly what happens when children are consumed by greed and when they leave out their love for their parents. The play focuses on deception, greed, cruelty, and misjudgment. King Lear would have stood bravely had he not been blinded by his avow folly. Often the disguise or deception is not physical but emotional. The few characters that must physically disguise themselves in the play are the few characters that are not motivated by darker emotions.Kent and Edgar disguise themselves one to help the king, the other to draw punishment. In the end, Shakespeare shows them to have pure and decent motives. The dukes and two eldest daughters however, who at no time in the play mist their faces nor their actions, do cross their true nature. The daughters trick their father into believing that they love him above all else. Edmund, too, tricks his father into thinking he is a loving devoted son, and this is to hide their true greediness.(Novel Analysis).Greed and craving are distortions of desire. In greed and craving, one relinquishes most of the consideration for anybody else in ones worldly concern. King Lear is part of that existence and falls victim to this greed. He is foolish not to see stub the actions of the very people he is surrounded with. This is an insatiable, self-designed torture trap that his children are engulfed with.King Lear knew the conditions of his life sentence as he experiences it. Only he can aim how to meet them. To the degree that his daughters are into hustling and conning, then they do not sincerely communicate with him. He exists for them only as an object that they hope to use for their own benefit. Lear finds himself surrounded by people who only wish to betray and abuse him and leave him abandoned.This caus es him to loose his sanity. King Lears decisions change his life and send him to his own demise. His actions lead him to his own sufferings, Howl, howl, howl O, you are men of stones. Had I your tongues and eyes, Id use them so that heavens vault should crack. Shes gone for ever I know when one is dead, and when one lives.(Act V, Sc iii, Ln 306-312).King Lear avoided the issue of his daughters manipulations. He allowed himself to be sidetracked by his world of distracting events. His ways of resisting or avoiding dealing with areas of his life that he did not feel ready to cope, kept him from being logical. He resisted eyesight clearly and that put something else between him and the issue. He blocked it out of his cognisance and convinced himself that it does not exists. He looks at the event and sees only the distracter that he puts between him and the issue, or he does not see anything there at all. When he got totally caught in his situation, he lost all grit of perspective on what others were plotting against him.In conclusion, the kings foolishness manifested in his own compulsive control that clamped him down and channeled his energies in narrow ways. This pushed all his spring into places where he was blinded to see the entire picture sending him bare-assed and where nature symbolized the chaos he found himself in.WORKS CITEDAct I, Sc i, Ln 38-41, Act I, Sc i, Ln 47-53 Reports & Essays Literature Shakespeare,Study world Retrieved Jan. 8, 2007 atNovel Analysis. King Lear. Retrieved Jan. 8, 2007 athttp//www.novelguide.com/kinglear/themeanalysis.html