Why...?

Why everybody must die? Why? I kept thinking in my mind that it shouldn’t happen especially to Cordelia. Shakespeare should write his play in the other way round – Cordelia must be the ruler of the kingdom instead of Edgar. Why I brought up this issue? It is because I used to read stories, which have ‘happy ending’ at the end of it and always think that ‘good people will have good life’ and vice versa.

Later, I realized that this is a ‘tragic play’ so I have to switch my point of view that this would happen in the story. Shakespeare had written such a fine play and successfully presented conflicts which might happened those days and probably at the present. The play is about human life so it must have conflicts…if there are no conflicts then life is boring! We are human and we need conflicts in our life thus we can experience and learn from it.

In this play, the old king – Lear – faces a major tragedy in his life when he decided to let his three daughters to rule their country and already divided the land into three parts. As human being, Goneril and Regan didn’t want to rule the country for the sake of their father because they didn’t want to be slaves. Therefore, they planned to get rid of him after he has disowned Cordelia. The conflict becomes worst and leads to the murderer of Regan before Goneril killed herself. Cordelia was killed with their order and that causes Lear’s death, which brings Edgar, becomes the new king.

So bloggers, I believe that each of us has experienced several of conflicts – whether major or minor conflicts – and we do learn from it…am I right? Whether we like it or not, want it or not, we should face it and try to solve it as best as we can. Thus, we can be prepared for other future conflicts…hopefully no and don’t think I’m crazy okay!

Finally, I started to read variety of genre and it gives me a lot of new experience. It does help me in finding answers of what happens in the stories I’ve read and events around me…;)