How Does Antigone Present The Power Of Truth In King Lear

Edgar is another major character and represent the virtue of truth and once again impacts King Lear’s actions and perspective, revealing Shakespeare’s message based on the power of truth at the end. Throughout the play, Edgar constantly disguises himself and deceive others in order to escape his brother’s scheming plans. During the scenes when Edgar meets with King Lear, Edgar is portrayed as a low person in society and an outcast. However, in Scene 5 nature describes Edgar returning back to his normal position in society and transforms from a poor beggar to a peasant with better clothes. Edgar is the only character remaining who is mindful and has full awareness of all the situations everyone experienced. Edgar also empathizes with all the sufferings the characters went through. This scenario is similar to that in Sophocles’ Antigone and shows how Creon is also the only one left behind to experience the after-effects of the events throughout the play and has to carry the burden of its knowledge throughout his life. Similarly, Edgar also has to carry the burden of everyone’s death and is the only witness to retell the events of this tragic story. Being the eyewitness of each character’s …show more content…
Although the beginning of the play is filled with vices attacking King Lear and dominating his entire mind with negative emotion, the ending is left with a positive emotion with virtue residing within King Lear’s mind. As King experiences the battle of will and emotion he endures through his own suffering he had created himself. Shakespeare proposes that our own selves are our worst enemy and that in order to truly know the world around us, one has to know the inside of oneself. Through this knowledge, one can be able to have more control over one’s mind and life and experience peace, similar to King Lear at the end of the