Human frailty is concerned with the new aspirations that appeared during the Renaissance that often showed how an individual was shaped by his weakness such as uncontrolled ambition, passion and a limitless need to know, to rule, to have revenge and to love. Such ideas occupied the minds of many playwrights at that time. This paper is mainly concerned with the treatment of these ideas in William Shakespeare?s King Lear, chosen because this play represents the emergence of human weakness during that conflicting period leading man to his downfall, the embodiment of tyrannical power, King Lear, is a tragedy of a protagonist who falls because of his weakness. In King Lear, the main idea is how a man of a royal position foolishly wastes. And the tragedy of a king who over trusted his daughters as he divides his own kingdom. He has doomed accordingly.
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Author Name: Mahmood Hasan Al-khazaali.
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Keywords: Frailty Weakness.
ISSN: 2320-5407
EISSN: 2320-5407
EOI/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJA
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