The Fate of The Blind. Interprets blindness in King Lear (by Shakepseare) and Oedipus

Title: The Fate of The Blind. Interprets blindness in King Lear (by Shakepseare) and Oedipus
Category: Literature / European Literature | Words: 2072 | Pages: 8.8 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Fate of The Blind. Interprets blindness in King Lear (by Shakepseare) and Oedipus

'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 …showed first 75 words of 2072 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2072 total…Lear's charitable concern for his fellow creature.People rebel against greed. The stars aren't responsible for what happens to us. Luck doesn't cause good or bad things to happen to us but the fault, the tragedy of human existence and even the brief moments of love and beauty that we experience lie not in the stars but in ourselves. Rosalie Colie said it best when she wrote 'Lives lived w/out virtue aren't worth living.'

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