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Blindness in King Lear
King Lear's love for their
daughters was so big that he was not able to see the truth.
So flattered was the King
by the oldest sisters' speeches that, as we know, when Cordelia was speaking
the truth about her real and powerful affections to his father, he was not
able to see and understand them. Moreover, he also regreted, at the end, to have made the decision he made.
Furthermore, the King was
not the only blind in the play; Gloucester was also physically and mentally
blinded. He realized that he was mentally and metaphorically blind when in Act 4
Scene 1 he says “I have no way and therefore want no eyes. I stumbled when I
saw. Full oft ‘tis seen Our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our
commodities.” (Line 18-21). He could not see the behavior of his son but now he knows what to do since he was able to see the reality.
Lear and Gloucester can't see beyond and judge just at first sight their answer is not what they expect.
Regarding this, I have came to some conclusions. On the one hand, we might me blind when we meet someone the first time. Even though we should not judge people by the way they look or talk, it is the first think we do--either positively or negatively, and it should not be like that.
And the last one is that I believe that when we are in a relationship with someone--friend or a partner, we need to acknowledge the danger that implies to like or love someone intensively without thinking or seeing the truth and also to wait for the answers we want to hear and the actions we want them to perform.
As we now have learned, we need to be careful because of the consequences that our blindness could provoke, we can make people suffer because placing trust in people that are not really well-known.
Let’s be careful about the feelings we show and about what we really demonstrate to others.
As Victor Hugo said once "Being good is easy, what is difficult is being fair "
So, to end: Are you blind too? Do you judge people at first sight? Are you a King Lear?
References:
* - Shakespeare, W. (2007). King Lear. Yale university press: New Haven and London.
*(2014) Quotations. Retrieved from https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/fairness
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ResponderEliminarGood post, Natalia!
ResponderEliminarRegarding your questions: I think that we all have been blind more than once when we fall in love, indeed, it has a scientific explanation! That happens because our hormones works in such a way that the reactions we experience when we fall in love are very similar to the once experimented with some drugs. It makes your brain release oxitocin,dopamine and vassopresin!!! look at this Helen Fisher asked newly ‘love struck’ couples to have their brains examined and discovered they have high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine. This chemical stimulates ‘desire and reward’ by triggering an intense rush of pleasure. It has the same effect on the brain as taking cocaine!
Fisher suggests “couples often show the signs of surging dopamine: increased energy, less need for sleep or food, focused attention and exquisite delight in smallest details of this novel relationship” .Incredible, isn't it?? and the other hormone that make us be so attached to someone:
Oxytocin is a powerful hormone released by men and women during orgasm.
It probably deepens the feelings of attachment and makes couples feel much closer to one another after they have had sex. The theory goes that the more sex a couple has, the deeper their bond becomes. "
Following this, I think that there are a first sight that we cannot help it!, because is part of our biological nature of animals, human-animals and that’s it. Maybe we have the chance of deciding whether or not a person is desirable or not with more time after the first met… so we wouldn’t be that blind.
1. http://www.brainhq.com/brain-resources/brain-facts-myths/brain-in-love
2. http://www.youramazingbrain.org/lovesex/sciencelove.htm
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,993160-3,00.html#ixzz1CqLUN8ii
Loyola University Health System. (2014, February 6). What falling in love does to your heart and brain. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 22, 2014 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140206155244.htm
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2008/02/11/35124.aspx