insanity. The cause is the realization that his daughters Goneril and Regan do not love him. One critic explains the cause of Lear's madness, It is the agony of the learning that exposes Lear as an old, rejected man which forces him over the brink of madness(Stuart 172). The finally pushes him over the edge was the cruel actions afflicted on him by the people that supposedly loved him. To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.... 'Twas this flesh begot Those pelican daughters describes Lear of the cr
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