Truth constitutes as a pivotal plot device throughout King Lear… (answer question). Lear’s banishment of Cordelia launches the norm of punishing truth, exclusive to the Fool, who in extremis signifies self-preservation, a voice of common sense and pragmatisms, causing his response to the mind-driven tempest of Lear of urging him to avoid the storm, self-confrontation and the failures of his tragic hubris. Consequently, Lear (“take my coxcomb”), Kent and Edgar attempt to usurp the Fool’s privileges, using prophecy alike to mad revolutionaries, to tell the present of the rejected masses, which Edgar achieves (look down at all the people quote thing). This undertaking of truth compels the apocalyptic ending, for the heath has allowed things to …show more content…
Lear’s error is of mentality of valuation, misjudgement in dismembering the kingdom, and is punished by a mental wretchedness, madness Only in the politically subversive ritual of the heath is Lear able to see the depth of cleavage between himself and the rest of humanity, yet discovering his sensitivity and physical need to concern for others (“”) precipitates him to the brink of madness, violently particularised and emotionalised from the sudden appearance of society’s malcontents, particularly Tom, who confers anonymity in supposed insanity. The language of the heath is a social forum for the criticism of the corruption of authority and the specious nature of social justice (“quote”). Whereas, Gloucester’s anguish is a physical affliction, punished for a physical sin of lechery, in which his graphic blinding deliberately doubled to provoke the shocking nature, paralled with the earlier echoes of sight and loss (“Meantime we shall express our darker purpose”) to manifest the extent of obliviousness. On the epiphanic cliff top, the limitless image transforms perspective from the towering superfluous heights inducing the overlooking of the destitution and outcast prophets (insert quote) to the “descent” that Gloucester and other powerful must undergo to “see