William Shakespeare’s King Lear is so much more than a political battle and family betrayal. It is a literal massacre of psychological warfare. Shakespeare’s characters go through insane manipulation, gaslighting, deception, and emotional cruelty. The play shows how much humans would do for a position of power.. these characters exploit psychological weaknesses and the consequences of mental and emotional manipulation.

King Lear is a play written on dece[tion and psychological tournament,
From the literal beginning, they start to manipulate each other, their own blood. Goneril and Regan’s manipulation using fake love and deception to manipulate lear to try to get power is where this all begins . Goneril and Regan psychologically disarm him, their usage of words erodes his perception of reality and so easily force Lear to give up his position of power.

Going into the middle of the play the sweetheart (Edmund.) of the novel also becomes a product of manipulation. He uses his deception to betray the girls as well as his father Gloucester and his own brother. He uses the girl’s desires for him to create more mess, he uses their love once again like at the beginning of the novel to destroy each other to win in his favor. Goneril kills her husband and then kills herself… this just further proves that everyone in King Lear was in desperate need of therapy.

King Lear deserves to be in a psych ward, it was all a play about psychological battles of the mind. One’s mind is truly what controls everything.