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Fate In King Lear
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"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 L ....
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That Edmund disbelieves in the influence of the stars adds to the
play's recurring theme that part of our fate is our character; that we
choose our lot in life by how we choose to act. Similarly, in Lear
Gloucester's feelings predict what is to come when he says "These late
eclipses of the sun and moon portend no good..." And because of this
Gloucester begins to envision a world where "Love cools, friendship falls
off, brothers divide..." While his father misunderstands the importance.... |
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