Hi, need to submit a 1250 words essay on the topic William Shakespeare's King Lear.Download file to see previous pages... King Lear was in such a situation as his two daughters that should be the ones

Hi, need to submit a 1250 words essay on the topic William Shakespeare's King Lear.

King Lear was in such a situation as his two daughters that should be the ones taking care of their fathers ganged up to frustrate his efforts and thwart his plans of running his kingdom effectively. Goneril and Regan pushed their father to the wall and he reacted. Now, it is a terrible thing for a father to be at war with his children and this was the case of King Lear. This was tragedy at its fullness and it was actually due to King Lear’s decision to give his two daughters his inheritance and leave the daughter that truly loved him out of his inheritance. Lear later denounced his daughters due to their bad behavior towards him. One then wonders the reason that he gave them his inheritance in the first place. King Lear’s tragic flaw was when he decided in his own wisdom to share his estate amongst two out his three daughters. It is not a bad thing for a man to give out his property to his children but the flaw which turned out to be tragic is Lear’s decision to leave out one of his daughters out of his inheritance. This rash decision brought tragic consequences for the characters of the play. Goneril and Regan were the two daughters that ‘pretended’ that they loved their father, while Cordelia does not show any form of pretense in the extent at which she loved her father. Thus, King Lear decided to leave Cordelia out of his inheritance and will his properties to Goneril and Regan. This turned out to be his undoing and his tragic flaw. Lear began to reap the fruits of his foolishness when Goneril started disrespecting him and she even reduced her father’s retinue. Due to the power that was also placed in the hands of Regan by their father, Lear, she also misbehaved and disrespected him. Hence, Lear’s tragic flaw is to put power in the hands of his two daughters and also the decision to leave Cordelia, his third daughter out of his inheritance (Shakespeare). One thing led to the other and Lear became the object of ridicule as he was mocked by the Fool for his many flaws. The Fool played a mockery role in the live of King Lear and in the course of the play. He was seen mocking Lear for his perceived misfortunes at some points in the novel. Despite the mockery on Lear, he still had someone that had an allegiance to him and that was Kent. Kent was the servant of Lear and he was actually a loyal servant that had a total allegiance to his master. Due to his two daughters’ terrible attitudes, Lear had to disown them, but the deed had already been done. He had already given them his inheritance and disowning them does not make much of a difference as power had already been given to his two daughters, Goneril and Regan. The implication of this is that, while Goneril and Regan were given power by their father, their father lost the grip over them and he also lost control over his kingdom. This was the result of the rash decision that Lear made by giving two daughters that pretended to love him, his inheritance. People might not know that, certain decisions that they take might come back at them, but for King Lear his unwise decision of giving his estate to his two ungrateful daughters turned out to become his peril. This was a decision that he lived to regret. Goneril and Regan’s maltreatment of their father, King Lear drove him mad and this was the tragedy in the story (Shakespeare). It is only reasonable people that would imagine that, it would be Cordelia that Lear seemed to despise that would turn out to be on his side in the battle against his two ungrateful daughters. It could then be argued that, King Lear’s tragic flaw is that he could not keep his house in order.