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Sometimes the best way you can learn is by going through something traumatic. In the play King Lear it seems that the most intellect people are the ones that have suffered the most. King Lear a character in the play who holds all the power in the beginning seems to be a man with reason. This proves not true when he gives kingdom to his two daughters not knowing that they had evil intentions.  The reason why Lear even gave to his kingdom to Goneril and Regan not Cordelia was because they have to profess their love to him. Goneril and Regan had done so but not Cordeila. Lear should have realized they may be showing your love doesn’t mean saying words that you don’t mean.  Lear even says “What can you say to draw A third more opulent than your sisters” (1.1.84-85). Lear is clearly telling Cordeila what more can you say how you love me so you can earn more lands than your sisters. Lear goes mad when he loses his kingdom and power to his daughters. When this had happen Lear becomes humble and gains wisdom. He now sees things that make him a better person and ruler. In a quote Lear states “Poor naked wretches, whereso’er you are, that bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, how shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you from seasons such as these? Oh, I have ta’en too little care of this” (3.4 28-33). Lear is currently in a hut because he is left homeless by his daughters. He is taking shelter from a storm and he is expressing his concern from the people who have to face this storm with poor living conditions. He also mentions when he was king he should have taken better care of his people.