King Lear

7. King Lear Our patient, Lear, has an arrogant, bashful, and ill-tempered personality that one would initially classify as representative of the attitudes that I, as a psychologist, would expect from a high-ranking royal of the Renaissance time period. I do not think it objectively sound to include my own opinion on the subject, but I would like to include in my report some background on Lear’s situation. It has occurred to me as a result of my findings, that kings of the Renaissance were typically objects of great idolatry and hierarchical power (see Great Chain of Being). As a result, it can be inferred that most kings, revered as almost demigods, would have slight delusions of grandeur that may or may not manifest in the conceit and apparent blindness (in that Lear is unable to see beyond the own fanciful, but deceptive visage Goneril and Regan create of him in their rhetoric) that pervades Lear’s reaction to Cordelia’s apparent refusal to devalue her love through flattery.

( may erase the below part) It can be said that until the banishment of Cordelia and the subsequent fall from grace for our patient, the brunt of the negativity associated with the aforementioned qualities of Lear’s personality did not have substantial weigh on his or his kingdom’s fortune. However, it can also be stipulated that this all changed when the aforementioned fiery aspects of his personality came to fruition and resulted in the banishment and disenfranchisement of the loving daughter, Cordelia, who would not stoop to the lows of false idolatry, and the comeuppance may have had that embody and seem to perpetuate rash decisions are in some way responsible it is significant to infer of Lear’s arrogant and angry reaction to Cordelia’s refusal to reduce herself to the false love that is flattery, that Lear, at least before the beginning of his downfall, is representative of what one would typically associate with a pampered king of the Renaissance. Lear, as indicated in The Great Chain of Being, that he is vastly above his subjects in importance and demands, whether truthful or otherwise, full and total a The that Lear was, at least before the beginning of his downfall, representative of a typical king of the Renaissance in that he, as indicated in The Great Chain of Being, are above that of their subjects and thus in that he seemingly would not favourably take to what he perceived as a noticeable lack of worship and respect. He seems to