and he embraces goneril and regan for being hypocritical. >> his other two -- >> you know?> -- daughters. yeah. >> yeah. and he only discovers later that they haven't exactly lied to him. i want to be fair to them too, as in, in fact, i think shakespeare is. but he has entered that stage in his life when he's misperceiving things. and he has to go through this agonizing process of gaining self-knowledge. >> the moment i always remember about king lear is when he's when the king is on the heath with gloucester and gloucester's blind and lear says nonetheless, you see the world. and gloucester says, "i see it feelingly." >> and lear says, "what, art mad? a man may see how this world goes with no eyes. look with thine ears." i could go on of course. >> but -- >> but, "i see it feelingly," is another beautiful shakespearean pnother beautiful shakespearean >> and i wonder why does it take the blind to see the truth? >> well, that's a wonderful theme running all through the play. there are many, many references to early on his first rage at goneril he says, "old fond eyes beweep