Part 1 of Essay
King Lear’s Emotional Stages Throughout the play King Lear, Shakespeare portrays King Lear as a normal human being with a very complex and fragile character. In this very sentimental play, Shakespeare places Lear through the worst anguish of his life (Bruhl 312). The anguish Lear goes through helps him finally realiz ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... state in which he is turning when he states, “My wits begin to turn.”( III.ii.67). Lear’s suffering is primarily mental and climaxes when Regan throws him out in the storm (Bruhl 317). The main mistakes appears “ as he [Lear] enters the phantasmagoria [fantastic imagery, as in a dream] of his madness”( Halio 192). This type of thinking makes Lear become mentally unstable. One can attribute King Lear’s main mental anguishes to the direct act of wrong doing towards him. ....