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What is the importance of the fool in king lear?

April 26, 2017Arts authors Books Fool Humanities importance King lear

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What is the importance of the fool in king lear?

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The fool is needed to speak the truth to King Lear, as others have on the whole failed to do, to comment on the scene in an objective way and to relieve the misery of the situation, which otherwise would be irredeemably heartbreaking.