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Is Justice Found in the World of King Lear?

Is Justice Found in the World of King Lear?

In the final act of King Lear, after slaying the brother who betrayed both him and their father, Edgar says “the gods are just” and that his father’s adultery that led
to the conception of his stepbrother Edmund appropriately “cost him his eyes.” But is there really justice in King Lear? Consider the plays many trials: Lear puts his
daughters on trial at the beginning to declare their love for him (Act 1); the Duke of Cornwall and Goneril arrest, try, and punish the Earl of Gloucester (Act 3); the
mad King Lear conducts a mock trial of his elder daughters Goneril and Regan in the farmhouse provided as shelter to him by Gloucester with Kent, the Fool, and Tom
O’Bedlam as judges; and Edgar engages in a final trial by combat with Edmund (Act 5). Do any of these trials bring about Justice? Is there any justice in the world of
King Lear?

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