This Shakespeare master piece contains all elements of major weaknesses of human beings. Its reading was pretty hard for me because plot is much more complex than in any other Shakespeare tragedy but at the end people realize the genius of William Shakespeare. Already mentioned before in one of my blogs, Shakespeare was ahead of his time and shadows of this play can be found in many books,movies,plays in later perioods. Betrayal and contrariness are very common in human nature and writter perfectly mathced them in King Lear.
King Lear, the central figure of the play, is carrier of contrariness, stupid pride and assume and these characteristcs brought him to total tragedy and disaster. On the other side, two wolves (two older daughters) who just wait for young (in his reasoning and thinking but not in his age) lamb are pure symbols of evil, even worse than Iago (at least in my opinion). This play can teach us how not to make stupid mistakes and we should move some bad characteristics like pride and ignorancy when making some decisions. King Lear has much more exciting and comlex plot than any other play we did in past. Although very cruel, Titus can't be compared with Lear because it looks little little child against an adult. One moment is similar in both plays and that is when Tamora looks Titus in his eyes in front of palace and thinks how she will revenge to him. After humilated by Goneril, Lear starts to realize a new riality. For both plays those were the monents which predicted a beginning of tragedy.
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Thanks. Good work.
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