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| Article Name : | | | PROBLEM 0F UNDERSTANDING THE SELF IN SHAKESPEARE'S KING LEAR | | Author Name : | | | Anshu Kumari | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-4560 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | In the plays of Shakespeare the problem of man's understanding of himself is associated with that of man's insecurity, and it is treated in the larger frame of the difficulty of understanding the truth in general. This context is also present in the baroque tragedies, but the lack of self-knowledge is here intensified and shown to have gigantic consequences because of the tremendous will and passion of the heroes. In King Lear the lack of self-knowledge is treated tragically. It is thought by many to be the greatest of Shakespeare's plays. It has everything: sibling rivalry, parent-child conflict, love, hate, greed, ambition, good versus evil, illegitimacy, adultery, suicide, compassion, Fortune, questions of fate and faith, politics, poverty, deprivation, madness, vanity, senility, cruelty, loyalty, devotion, ageism, dignity and the loss of dignity, examples of the best and worst of humankind. | | Keywords : | | |
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