Cycle in King Lear and Oedipus
The Universe is a cycle and all the galaxies and stars are part of its cycle. A star forms from dust and gases and continues its life cycle until its destruction. These ruins of dead stars form new stars and the Universe continues its cycle. The story of King Lear and Oedipus the King are related to this concept. King Lear and Oedipus the King are part of a larger cycle; moreover, their story is divided into many sub cycles. In both plays like the Universe's rejuvenating cycle, order is broken, there is destruction and then everything is restored in the end. The different cycles of the characters are sub-cycles of both protagonists, who are part of the gods' cycle. The larger cycle that controls the life cycle of both King Lear and Oedipus The King are the gods. In King Lear by William Shakespeare, the King is a very powerful and mighty person, who controls everyone under him. But above the King, there is an even more powerful and strong figure-The Almighty. The possession of this power and might makes the king very close to the gods. The God controls the life cycle of the King, who is part of the greater order of the Universe. The king controls the people and the kingdom, which are part of his
This differentiates the cycle of Oedipus since Lear's life cycle is judged by the gods according to what he has done in the present not in the past. Though Oedipus and his biological parents tried to avoid the prophecy from becoming true half way through the cycle, their efforts proved to be pointless since Oedipus and his parents are sub-cycles (part) of the great order of the gods. During the era of the Greeks, killing a blood relative was an evil sin, because of which Laius and Jocasta didn't kill their son. Oedipus completes the life cycle of his father by killing him at the three way crossing and his mother's cycle by marrying her, which eventually leads to the completion of his first cycle of life. "Whose murder? Whose is the man whose death Apollo lays to our charge?" (Pg 7) "I shall fight for him, as if he was my own father. " Pg 7 Oedipus the KingLear, as a king, is also a part of his own life cycle. "In our judgment you are first of men, both in the normal crisis, of human life and in relations with the gods. Oedipus is born with the prophecy that he will murder his father and marry his own mother and this prophecy is given by none other than the great Apollo. In the middle of his cycle Lear losses the most important thing in his life. At the end of his cycle Gloucester finds the king, apologizes for his mistakes to his son Edgar and redeems himself. He losses his friends (even though Kent was with Lear but in a difference appearance), his sanity and his identity as the king. But in the game of "flattery", he banishes his favorite daughter Cordelia and his loyal friend Kent and gives the Kingdom to the wrong people. The gods became upset, brining a plague upon the people of Thebes.
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