and the King he has control, this he abuses, to his own demise.
Lear suffers psychological imprisonment, both through his societies ideals and his own blindness to the truth. He is psychologically imprisoned by his society, in that his mind cannot break free of the gender roles, he has certain expectations of women and when this mould is broken he is staggered. "Though women all above./But to the girdle do the Gods inhe
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