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Blindness in a Different Light in Shakespeare's King Lear
Under normal circumstances and in the simplest terms, one might
consider blindness to be the "inability to see or the loss or
absence of perception of visual stimuli" (CancerWEB). However, in
William Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, blindness is a word that
means so much more than just a physical flaw. Rather, King Lear
can serve to show that the term applies also to one's ability to
use reason in a logical process of thought. In particular,
blindness describes some characters' lack of good judgement when
it comes to seeing another…