King Lear is one of William Shakespeare's four great tragedies, many scholars and critics acclaimed it as his greatest works, and they also interpreted this masterpiece from different points of view. The play illustrated Shakespeare’s interpretation of the changes of women's status respectively from three stages-the rise, the prosperity and the decline of women’s status, and this was also a bold attempt of the playwright to speak for women's status. Nevertheless, the restriction of social environment and both women's physiological and psychological conditions, especially women’s character weaknesses of sensitive suspicion and emotionality, became the dominant reasons of why they destroyed eventually.