Ripeness Is AII——An Interpretation Of King Lear

King Lear is generally acknowledged as Shakespeare's greatest achievement of the four outstanding great tragedies. The play's everlasting enchantment lies in its perpetually renewed capacity for discovering life. Lear, after the abdication of throne at the finish of his life, is shocked to realize what to look forward to is a series of crisis and harsh conflicts between fancy and reality. Time and again, he is torn by mental collapse while in return he is endowed with better vision, with which he eventually achieves maturity.The first part of the thesis is the introduction devoted to the sources and the adaptation of the play. Part II analyses the flaws of Lear's character that account for the rise of chaos. He is repeatedly plunged into confusion and outrage as the result of the conflicts between reality and his fallacy following the abdication of his kingdom. Part III centers on filial ingratitude and the trial in the tempest, which are the mental and physical torture that Lear is inflicted upon. What Shakespeare tries to convey here by the afflictions that Lear undergoes is "Man must endure", if he is to achieve maturity. In Part IV, Lear is recovered to sanity and is bestowed sharpened insight into the objective world. His in-depth understanding of the grief of human life awakens the humanity at the bottom of his heart. Urged by his deep remorse for his sins and guilt, he eventually manages to overcome the flaws of his character and put his passions under control. Death inevitably comes and ruins the good along with the evil. The fifth and last part is the conclusion of the thesis. It probes into the very essence of human life and renders us the hope that man is all the way struggling towards perfection painfully but inflexibly.