[Characters] King Lear - The Fool (1999)

Hiroyuki Sanada as "The Fool" in 'King Lear'














Quick Information: 
- Name: King Lear
- Hiro's character's name: The Fool
- Genre: Play
- Year: 1999/2000

About the Fool in Shakespeare's:
* The fool seems to exist outside the play appearing and disappearing without warning.
* The fool is a necessary character to the evolution of Lear's character, since he is the personification of truth and reason.
* The fool serves to show Lear how he is going insane, as well as to attempt to delay this inevitability.
* The fool also demonstrates to Lear the truths about people around him, and tries to point out what treachery and deceit they wish upon him.
* When Lear is too far-gone to heed the advice and knowledge of the fool, he vanishes without a trace no longer useful, or needed.
* The fool, however, does not tell Lear directly that he is going insane,
*The fool uses riddles and jokes to convey his message to Lear. Even when Lear's insanity was causing the fool discomfort.

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