Book Review Of King Lear

The book review of King Lear

King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s famous tragedies .Lear, the aging king of Britain, decides to step down from the throne and he decides to divide his kingdom evenly among his three daughters. Firstly, however, he puts his daughters go through a test which asks each of them to tell him how much she loves him. Goneril and Regan, Lear’s older daughters, give their father flattering answers and make the old king very cheerful. But Cordelia, Lear’s youngest and favorite daughter says that she has no words to describe how much she loves her father. She says that after she gets married she will give her husband half of her love and another half for her father. Lear is very angry and disowns Cordelia. The king of France who has courted Cordelia was deeply moved by her sincere. He says that he still wants to marry her even without her land. With a pity Cordelia accompanies the French king to France without her father’s blessing. Lear quickly realizes that he made a bad decision. Goneril and Regan swiftly begin to deprive the little authority that Lear still holds. They treat him cold nd without passions. Because of unable to believe that his beloved daughters are tormenting him, Lear slowly goes mad. He leaves from his daughters’ houses to be honor .Unfortunately he runs up against a great thunderstorm with his Fool and Kent who is a loyal minister of his.

Meanwhile, an elderly nobleman of Lear’s named

Gloucester also experiences family problems. His illegitimate son, Edmund, cheats him to believe that his legitimate son, Edgar, is trying to kill him and robs his property. So he readily place trust in what Edmund said and set Edgar out of the country. Without any method Edgar makes up himself as a craz...

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...y. The result is that she can’t save King Lear and lost her own life.

People need a calm brain when they face troubles, especially serious situation. Successful man solve the problems with their wisdom and perfect plan (It needs a clearly understand to oneself and the opponents) not a impulse mind.

From King Lear I learned that there are a lot of tragedy will not happen if we deal with the matters using another ways. Maybe they are some white lies or harmless tricks. And maybe we just need a little moment for us to calm down. However, the world has no constant rules. We are always good man as long as we have a good will and love for others.

Learn from Cordelia’s kind and honest but not her obstinate and crude ，especially her silence, and you’ll find there are not so many tragedies around us. Always it is not the fate make fun of people, just people themselves.