This is an essay about king lear and how it used several literary elements.

In King Lear one of the most important themes is blindness. In King Lear both Lear and glouscter are blind. In this book blindness is not a physical quality but a mental flaw that some people have. Both King Lear and glouscter are good examples of blindness. Each of these characters's blindness was the main cause of the bad decisions they made.
The blindest character in my mind was King Lear. Because of
Lear's high position in society, he was supposed to be able to
See the good from the bad; unfortunately he was unable to do so. Lear's first act of blindness came at the beginning of the…