Justice

Justice

1. Cruel and merciless.

   • Gloucester's blindness
     • Suicidal
       • "This world I do renounce, and in your sights/ Shake patiently my great affliction off."
     • Punishment for adultury
       • "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices / Make instruments to plague us."
   • Lear's madness
     • “O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! / I would not be mad. / Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.” (I. V. 44-45)
     • Mock Tial
     • Cordelia's attendants chasing after him
       • "I will die bravely like a smug bridegroom."
   • Cordelia's death
     • “Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, / And thou no breath at all?” (5.3. 305–306).
   • Lear dies of a broken heart
   • Kent's devotion to Lear comes to nothing...will commit suicide

2. Just and deserving

   • Edgar (loyal son) triumhps over (illegitimate and false) Edmund.
     • "The Gods are just"
     • "The wheel is come full circle; I am here." (Edmund
     • Edgar gets his revenge on the half brother that got him banished and his father blinded.
   • Regan is poisoned and Goneril commits suicide
     • "Pelican daughters" who only cared about themselves
   • Edgar and Albany inherits kingdom
     • Morally good & birth/marriage
   • Cornwall is killed by a servant

3. Abused

   • Lear when he banishes Kent and Cordelia
     • No longer king
     • Extreme for their 'crimes'
   • Gloucester's trial
     • INHUMANE
   • Mock trial
     • Outcome fixed
   • Love test

4. Social

   • Lear & Gloucester come to see inequality
     • Lear wishes to help the "Poor naked wretches"
   • Gloucester gives money to 'Poor Tom'