Part one of term paper
In there is numerous evidence that can trace the gradual growth of the main characters mental breakdown. There are a few passages in the play which show us something of Lear before the story begins, and it will help understand the development of Lear's passion into madness to examine these. At the end of the first scene Goneril speaks of h ...

Part two of term paper
... this may only be an infirmity of age. He himself tells the reader that he is domineering and will not tolerate no opposition to his will. When addressing Kent, who interfered to prevent the banishment of Cordelia, he says "Thou hast sought to make us break our vow Which we durst yet, and with strain'd pride, To come between our sentence and out power, Which nor our nature nor out place can bear." In the play itself there are three great outbursts of passion, "hysterica passio" as the King names i ...