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Originally Posted by Jenson71
As in Gloucestor finally "seeing" the truth about his sons only after becoming literally blind? Nice touch, William.
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More than just see the truth regarding his sons though, he sees that Cordelia loved him all along, and he sees that his sorrows were brought about because of his prior inability to really see things (despite having physical sight then). Glouchester, too, suffers from this lack of "insight." When Glouchester says that "I have no way and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw," well, that just encapsulates the whole tragedy right there. The Fool, for his part, tries to hint at the importance of really seeing things. I could throw out a bunch of choice quotes that suggest that vision is operating in a complex way in the play even before the central irony of true-sight-after-loss-of-sight is introduced.