"The Stone Angel" vs "King Lear": Blindness,Insight

Blindness; a flaw with insight` It was once said, "What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all."(Kingslover) This is a quote that can relate the characters in The Stone Angel and King Lear. In the tragedy King Lear, written by William Shakespeare and in the novel The Stone Angel, written by Margaret Laurence, the …

…gives moral insight. Blindness is not a physical flaw, but the inability of the characters to use their thoughts and emotions to see a person for whom they truly are. Nevertheless, from this blindness leads a feeling of loneliness and hopelessness, isolation. Once this isolation has occurred, the characters finally gain the insight that has long flawed them and indulge in self-discovery, and although this discovery is made, in the end some people never change.