King Lear

In this essay I will analyze the friendships in Shakespeare’s “King Lear” according to Aristotle’s concepts of friendship. Although the play was a very dark and depressing one, I will use the few relationships that were truly friendships as well as those that were outright doomed to fail in order to explain Aristotle’s views. In Shakespeare’s “King Lear”, death and killing are abundant. Friendships, perfect or imperfect are overshadowed by the …

…it is difficult to create an atmosphere that could foster friendships. In closing, the friendships in King Lear worked because they were true friendships. Those that did not work were never real friendships to begin with. Relationships are an extremely complicated subject as we can see from this play. In real life there may not be as many tragedies, but King Lear does somehow make us think about how mean and cruel people can be.