King Lear 4

Many times we see a battle of good vs. evil in movies, books, and society. This motif is used so often because it pertains to so many facets of authentic life.
In the King Lear play, Shakespeare creates many conditions in which humans live in the world. The main characters in the play are used to portray Shakespeare's ideas. One of these ideas which Shakespeare is trying to portray is evil between the characters and in the world which are emphasized throughout the play. The evil, created by humans, is outweighed by good in the world of King Lear.
People believe that when they succumbed to evil temptations, his or her actions would come back on them. When a person does something evil, such as murder, it would be believed that person would be fated to have an unnatural death, by way of divine intervention. In the play King Lear the three main characters King Lear, Ragan and Gonerail demonstrate this concept. King Lear banished his youngest daughter, Cordelia and took everything from her. In the end, he is faced with the same fate of having nothing. Ragan killed in passion and anger, and died in the same fashion. Goneril, who kills her sister, commits suicide from guilt. You see in these people that a persons evil actions, his or her inability to fight evil temptations, comes back on them and divine intervention takes its course to restore faith.
Even though evil was created by humans good will always exist. After King Lear was captured he showed that even if evil exists, good will always be present. Lear speaks about love with Cordelia in the prison cell and how they will still have each other despite of the evil around them. Lear discovers nature's beauty by playing with the mice and listening to the signing birds. While all the evil is at its peak and everything seems to be lost, the raw nature in the play is unharmed. The good exists even while the evil dominates the world.
Although evil will always be present and people will be the reason why it exists, good...