The Use Of Disguises In King Lear

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start mistreating their father and the King takes refuge in a jungle. His youngest daughter tries to save him and in the process gets herself killed and the king meets an unfortunate death. The whole tragedy is replete with disgusting disguises and deceits.

Analysis:

As has been indicated earlier, almost all the principal characters of the tragedy use intriguing disguises to conceal their intentions. They succeed in achieving the objectives for which they put up an appearance other than what they were. But according to the universal truth that vice begets vice, those who had vicious purpose were in the end defeated and their cunning purposes were revealed and those with virtuous intensions were rewarded.

King Lear himself is the first to camouflage his intentions when he announces the division of his kingdom in accordance with the love that his daughters had for him. But it is a fact that the division of the kingdom had already been decided upon and he had given the ...

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to her second daughter, Regan not knowing that she was made of the clay which much worse than that of which Goneril was made. The shocking attitude of the two daughters gives the king such a mental agony that he decides to leave them and goes into a jungle. His mental agony ends up in insanity. But in his madness he seems to think afresh about the universal truth.

On the contrary, the youngest daughter is quite innocent and truthful. She tells her father that she loved him as much as her obligation as his child required. She also informs him that she would not use conceited statement to tell him that she only loved her father and none else because she had her husband whom she will ...

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