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Essay Archive - Fate in King Lear
Fate in King Lear
"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we
will." These words from Hamlet are echoed, even more pessimistically, in
Shakespeare's later play, The Tragedy of King Lear where Gloucester says:
"Like flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods, they kill us for their
sport". In Lear, the characters are subjected to the various tragedies of
life over and over again.
An abundance of cyclic imagery in Lear shows that good people are
abused and wronged regardless of their own noble deeds or intentions.
Strapped t....
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