t a sentiment of ambivalence as there is equivocation over the notion of a "global justice". Edmund, the illegitimate son of Gloucester, points out the futility of rationalizing one's guilt by blaming the cruelty of heavenly forces in the opening act of this play.
             This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains be necessity. (Lear: I, ii, 125)
             However, as the play draws to a close, the message invariably takes a more irreverent tone as there is a condemnation of celestial intervention in the affairs of men. "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport." (Lear: IV, ii, 36) The plays agonizing and pitiful denouement, filled with blood, murder and nothing short of ineffable misery is complemented by the censure of divine involvement and the unjust workings of
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