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

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Cycles of the characters in Oedipus the king is very strange and different from King Lear due to the two life cycle of Oedipus. But Lear made a major error in his life which caused a lot of destruction to the connections of chain. " Pg 7 Oedipus the King

Lear, as a king, is also a part of his own life cycle. In the beginning of the play Gloucester is seen as a very good and faithful friend of the king, but when the king is exiled from the kingdom Gloucester looses the bond between him and the king.

“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. Oedipus kills his father and has to pay for the evil sin he has committed. Oedipus and his mother is not aware of the evil sin they have committed. We must punish those who killed him-whoever they may be. So this accomplishment gave Oedipus a status of a King, a special place in peoples heart and the most important place, like Lear, close to the gods. Without the cycle of Regan, Goneril and Cordelia the cycle of Lear would have been incomplete.

"It is to his (Laius) death that Apollo's command clearly refers. Without Edgar the order could not have been restored and the cycle of Gloucester, Lear and the kingdom would have been incomplete. In the end of the play Oedipus gouges his eyes out and exiles himself from the city after seeing Jocasta hanged making the prophecy become true. There is nothing that they could have done to avoid the prophecy.

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