King Lear Essay

The two characters who suffer the most in the play are Lear and 

Gloucester. Their stories are similar in many ways, but, while Lear 

slowly goes mad, Gloucester is blinded. Ironically, however, both 

seem to be able to perceive certain things more clearly after they lose 

their faculties. So, what is the correlation Shakespeare is making 

between madness and blindness?