Part one of term paper
King Lear is a story of blindness. Blindness caused by an inability to see past oneself, an inability to see the true nature of those one loves, and what happens when the blinders come off and things are “seen” as they really are. In this essay, I will discuss a passage in Act IV, Scene 1, where Edgar sees his father, the Earl of Glouc ...

Part two of term paper
... is too late. The other story, of which I am writing, involves Gloucester and his two sons, Edgar and Edmund, and Gloucester’s similar inability to see beyond himself. An example of this inability occurs in the opening scene, when Gloucester is talking with Kent about his bastard son, Edmund. He does not seem to be able to understand how what he is saying affects Edmund. Gloucester tells Kent that he has an older son, “by order of law” (legitimate), and then he jokes about how Edmund “ca ...