“King Lear” explores themes like power, betrayal, and madness. Lear’s tragic flaw is his inability to tell true love from flattery, which leads to his downfall. The play shows how greed and deceit destroy family bonds and societal order. 

Madness, both literal and metaphorical, is a key theme, revealing how distorted perception can unravel lives and relationships. Shakespeare suggests that true madness isn’t just about losing reason but also about seeing the world in a twisted way.

I believe even though I didn’t go mad senior year learning in English, Senior year as a whole is very similar to what Lear goes through as his whole life flips many times. Which is what happened to me during the college process. I believe English was what taught me that no matter the power shift that happens there has to be two sides to a power dynamic and it can be easily changed by what actions you take. Even later in the year when we learned romanticism taught me how to appreciate things and it’s what Edgar goes through and senior showed me to appreciate what I got from nature and high school at the same time and not to lose the moment in present time thinking about the future.