Not Another Intended Tragedy by Shakespeare

Another Play by Shakespeare - King Lear

After done watching Macbeth, we are now facing another great but complex literature text by Shakespeare, King Lear. I do strongly believe that many of us were not able to catch most of the meaning in the text as for the fact that the text was written in such classical Shakespearean language that many of us just can’t really relate. However, after the explanation by Dr. Edwin, as always, we are now at better understanding of the text.

In comparison of the two plays, Macbeth and King Lear, there are several similarities readers could actually note. Both of the plays are plays of tragedy and involved a great deal of emphasizing on the reversal of fortune that took place especially on the two Kings. Anyway, in King Lear, from a steady and solid ruler, the once great King Lear changed into a mad foolish old man. The turning point for King Lear’s solid stand point was probably due to the fact that he was trying to go against the natural order of which was way planned by the gods.

He started of the betrayal towards the natural order when he decided to give and divide his territory to his two hypocrite and disloyal daughters and was blind enough to see the actual love of his other daughter whom he had soon disowned. He was so into listening to the confession of the two daughters and was too blind and ignorance to see the actual feelings and the genuine love. He had then was treated badly by the two supposedly sincerely love him daughters and was turn into a madman by them. However, he had eventually realize that the true feeling from the daughter that he had disowned, Cordelia, was what he worth living for and that sometimes not all could be impart by a speech or beautifully well written poems but rather the genuinely feeling and actions that follows.

Most of the time, in many cases, we as human are so eager believing in what we are listening to but at the end prevail to hear any of the truth. And at the end, action does speak louder than words. In conclusion, upon finishing reading the play, I have understood lots of things in life. The issues in the play was so much so as it is in the reality today, here, I could see how brilliant and wise Shakespeare was when he was writing this play for now, years and years after, the issue of his play is still relevance to our context. There are many things in life that we took for granted, we were too much into our dreams and fantasy of what we want to hear that eventually leads to our own failure in seeing the truth and genuine love that was there all the time.