King Lears Emotional Stages

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317). The main mistakes appears “
as he [Lear] enters the phantasmagoria [fantastic imagery, as in a dream] of
his madness”( Halio 192). This type of thinking makes Lear become mentally
unstable.
One can attribute King Lear’s main mental anguishes to the direct act
of wrong doing towards him. The wrong doings cause so much suffering
because it comes from the two people he thought loved him more than any
person on earth, Goneril and Regan. These ungrateful daughters strip Lear of
his knights when he gives over his power (Dominic 233) of which this quote
makes an exemplary example:
Regan: And speak’t again, my lord. No more with me
Lear: Those wicked creatures yet do look well favored
When others are more wicked: not being the worst
Stand in some rank of praise. I’ll go with thee.
Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty
And thou are twice her love.
Goneril: Hear ...

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