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…Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. Justice - King Lear is a brutal play, filled with human cruelty and awful, seemingly meaningless disasters. The play's succession of terrible events raises an obvious…

…The two works King Lear by William Shakespeare and Oedipus the King by Sophocles share similar themes. One such theme is sight versus blindness. In Shakespeare's King Lear the issue of sight versus blindness is a recurring theme. In Shakespearean…

…William Shakespeare supports the differing ideals of appearance and reality by the physical traits of the characters and the action of events in his historical tragedy, King Lear. The refusal of Cordelia to articulate her love to her father, King Lear…

…Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear" is a detailed description of the consequences of one man's decisions. This fictitious man is Lear, King of England, who's decisions greatlyalter his life and the lives of those around him. As Lear bears the status…

…Lear: The Tragic Character In William Shakespeare’s King Lear, the similar events that Lear and Gloucester experience result in a parallel plot sequence for the story. Lear and Gloucester are similar characters because they are experiencing similar…

…Characters That Reveal the "Whole of Reality" In Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Kalidasa's Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, and Shakespeare's King Lear, there are characters that help the hypothetical figure see the "whole of reality…

…The theme of nature is easily seen in King Lear. There are various ideas about human beings and their relationship to nature in the play. Ideas relating to nature appear often in the play. There are fifty-seven differant animals mentioned…

…'King Lear' by William Shakespeare is the story of the king of Britain and his three daughters. There is also an underlying plot involving the Earl of Gloucester and his two sons. The two plots while separate, are mingled together to create one story…

…Theological Consequences in King Lear Shakespeare's King Lear is not primarily a theological text. It contains no direct references to Christ, and its characters are not overtly religious, except perhaps in a strictly pagan sense. King Lear…

…In King Lear, Shakespeare constructs the play so that originally, as Harbage argues, “We weigh circumstances and view Lear’s reverses at least partly in terms of his faults,” yet eventually find that disaster is created by “the immeasurable evil…