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King Lear: Suffering

Statistics

  Counts

  Total Pages: 1.78
  Total Words: 444
  Total Characters: 2119
  Number of Sentences: 29


  Averages

  Words per Sentences: 15.31
  Characters per Words: 4.77


  Readability

  Flesch Reading Ease: 69.92
  Fog Scale Level: 10.36
  Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7.31  

King Lear: Suffering


     Suffering takes on many appearances, depending on how it is received.
In King Lear, suffering was very painful to two people, and the giver wasn't
necessarily an enemy, pain can be from the ones you love.  A storm isn't
something you wouldn't think of when pain comes to mind, but it is an element
and part of your environment, so are the people one deals with.  Pain can come
from many areas, both far and near.
     The enemies in our lives are their to balance the goodness that we feel.
The world has balance and they provide it.  The pain that they furnish us comes
in many forms, mental and physical.  In Gloucester's case, physical was the main
one.  Getting your eyes gouged out must be an excruciating way to experience
pain.  The blinding of a person is not only painful, but demeaning and
tormenting as well.  Imagine being blinded and having to experience the world
all over again.  The frustration of depending on other people and learning how
to navigate your surroundings, with all the grace of a child.  This kind of
suffering could lead to suicide, and it would have, except Gloucester was blind
and couldn't see that there was no cliff to throw himself off of.  His enemies
didn't want to kill him, but they already did, internally.
     The internal death is t...

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