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Analyzing King Lear's Tragic Flaws
Title: Analyzing King Lear's Tragic Flaws
Category: Literature / English
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Analyzing King Lear's Tragic Flaws
ANALYZING KING LEAR’S TRAGIC FLAWS
King Lear is a play about a tragic hero, by the name of King Lear, whose flaws get the best of him. A tragic hero must posess three qualities. The first is they must have power, in other words, a leader. King Lear has the highest rank of any leader. He is a king. The next quality is they must have a tragic flaw, and King Lear has several …showed first 75 words of 912 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 912 total…s arrogance causes him to make ignorant decisions like the ones stated previously. Finally, both arrogance and ignorance pay tribute to his poor judgements. At the end of the play, King Lear stares his tragedy face to face. Soon after his startling mistakes, he dies. To sum it up, King Lear’s flaws, arrogance, ignorance, and misjudgments, leads to his destruction in this Shakespearean tragedy.
WORK CITED
Shakespeare, William. King Lear. New York: Pocket Books, 1993.
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