The story King Lear is a very confusing one and the most confusing of the 3 plays that we read this semester. First it talks about a king who distributes his land to his daughters based on what they say their love for him is. In the end, the 2 sisters that get the lands don't really mean what they say, they just say that they love King Lear to get more land. Then it jumps to a scene where Edmund fakes a letter for his brother and makes his brother have to leave the castle and run away. And after all that mess, the two stories are put together and King Lear is unwanted and cast away by his daughters and Edmund turns his father into an outlaw too. And in the end, everyone dies...
I think this play is just really really confusing... I had to read it quite a few times in order for me to have some basic understanding of what the play was about. And after reading summaries such as those on Spark Notes, I still couldn't fully understand what the play was about. But from what I know of the play, I learned some lessons. First of all, in this world, many people will try to "get rid" of you because of competition and use many inhumane ways to do so, so we must be careful and not give these people a reason or way to get rid of us. Secondly, people will tell you everything just to make you happy and even though you may know that, you will still favor them over people who actually do care about you but don't say so. From this we can see that human nature is purely evil and we should control ourselves and think about what others say about us.
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