King Lear Gender Roles

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The play King Lear by William Shakespeare has had an impact throughout the entire world. The play is based on tragedy and how each gender has a different role. In King Lear, male and female characters can have both a masculine and feminist role. Gender role doesn’t have to be based on the actual gender, the social construct of gender roles doesn’t apply to the play king lear on what specific role which gender should work on. In the play King Lear by Shakespeare Goneril is acting like a man due to her evilness as a character and King Lear is acting like a female due to the circumstances that led him feel that way. These characters have both a reverse gender role in the play because due to the circumstances that led them to act out a gender that