The Tragedy of King Lear

Rosaura Sánchez
Andrés Castillo
Natalia García
Theme

King Lear is a story about human cruelty and awful human suffering.
The story progression includes terrible events that raises a question
for the characters in it, debating whether there is a possibility of
justice in the world. Gloucester muses, realizing it’s nonsense for
humankind to assume that the natural world works with social or
moral conception of justice. Edgar, on the other hand, insists that
“the gods are just” meaning that individuals get what they deserve.
But, in the end, the characters left with only a terrifying
unpredictability and although the wicked die, the good die along with
them, concluding with the awful image of Lear cradling Cordelia’s
body in his arms. There is goodness in the world of the play, but there
is also madness and death and it is difficult to tell which triumphs in
the end.