William Shakespeare s King Lear - 1510 Words

Shakespeare’s King Lear deals with tragic human relationship like the other tragedies of the author, but this story was written in social aspect and raises the doubtful point on legitimacy of some political systems. In this play, various characters form multi-layered kconflict relations. Thus, the story is being propelled towards tragedy due to numerous inner and outer conflicts of each character. However, as it is brought into being a character, Edgar in the end of the story, it implies new beginning of the kingdom. In addition, as comparing king Lear with Edgar, two social systems, monarchy and democracy can be evaluated. Democracy pursues freedom with less government intervention. This promotes each individual to take his/her own†¦show more content†¦In case of Edgar, although he was a tramp for a while but he was selected as a candidate for a new king with Kent and he showed respect to the king Lear and pursued proper truth. Therefore, Edgar adopted the best sides of monarchy of democracy; respect for tradition and morality and personal charisma on one side, and background knowledge of reality and responsibility for others on the other side. Many protagonists such as Cordelia, Kent, Albany, Gloucester and Edgar supported monarchy as they respected Lear. They were royal to the king until the end of the story and this can be seen when Kent left the words that suggested his death; â€Å"I have a journey, sir, shortly to go. My master calls me; I must not say no(5.3.327-328).† This shows that Lear had a charisma that attracted people and made people rely on. In this perspective, the role of the king is very significant in monarchy because every moment depends on a single person. In other words, the fate of a country depends on only one person in monarchy system. This being so, Lear’s insecurity was fatal for his nation as the country was divided and was dragged into depravity battle. If Lear had taken advices from his people, he co uld have been a better king and monarchy would have been the most suitable system for the kingdom. On the contrary, some protagonists, Goneril, Regan, Edmund, and Cornwall tended to support democracy. They were full of ambitions and wanted equal