{"id": "card_n_4cebd0745565", "kind": "note", "title": "King Lear", "body": "Aged king demands his daughters perform their love before he divides the kingdom; banishes the one who refuses theater (Cordelia); discovers too late that the flattering daughters intended his fall; goes mad on the heath; reconciles with Cordelia at the very end of his strength.\n\nFailure mode: Confusing the performance of love with love.\n\nRestoration path: On the heath the king becomes naked man and learns what he could not learn on the throne.\n\nMarkers: demands performance of devotion; banishes the honest one; gives away the strength that protected him; goes out into the storm; reconciles only after losing everything\n\n— King Lear, Shakespeare, King Lear (Literature)", "source": {"label": "Archetype — Literature", "url": "", "ref": "Shakespeare, King Lear", "authority_tier": "reference"}, "shelf": "reference", "box": "archetypes", "bands": ["archetype", "proud_humbled", "literature"], "connections": [], "author": "engine", "created_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "surface": "secular", "metrics": {"paperclips_count": 0, "helpful_count": 0, "not_helpful_count": 0, "cite_count": 0, "walks_through_count": 0, "flagged_count": 0}, "source_hash": "c6d5f4933b7d385b38a90d9f4d84fc2fe6015b36950de299ccad5e7ae2a2ae19"}