King Lear

Finally! We have finished study King Lear! What a relief! Honestly, it was so boring. However, it is actually interesting indeed. In a way that it has something that should be learnt to by any students especially TESL students as it is a necessity for them and me in order to be a better person.

I do not even know what actually King Lear is about when we first were asked to buy the book by Dr Edwin and I thought it would be more interesting than some of Shakespeare’s pieces of arts such as Midsummer Nights’ Dream, which have I studied before. However, I then found out that it is in fact different but there are conflicts that involving parent in both plays; Midsummer Night’s Dream and King Lear.

In King Lear, it is obvious that both Lear and Gloucester have been blind and make a false decision and their weakness has been taken granted by their children. In this play too, we can see that the role of the wheel of fortune in our life does takes its place and role. I said this because I can see that it is true that sometimes we can be at the highest place or hierarchy in our life but then, there are times when we move or go down and own nothing compared to what we used to have. As we can see in this play, Lear at the beginning is the most powerful person, as everybody has to follow what his rule is. For example, when he banished Kent and Cordelia, nobody can question what he said. But we then see that he has no power at all and it turn worse when he could not even have many men to follow him as Goneril against it.

Lastly, I was hoping that we could watch the movie or video of the play King Lear so that I would see and understand it better. Besides that, it will also be more interesting.