In William Shakespeare’s King Lear The transfer of power throughout the play is passed back and forth from the evil people in the play to the good people. The play starts out with King Lear giving his power to his two daughters, Regan and Goneril. One theme that is shown greatly in the play is “Wisdom through suffering”; King Lear suffers most but learns a lot also. King Lear gained wisdom by suffering by giving all his land to his two evil daughters and disowning Coredlia, the faithful one of the sisters. From the beginning of the play until the end the two evil sisters, Regan and Goneril

In the play of King Lear Revenge is always spoken of but it is not fully achieved until the end of the play for some. A theme that is shown towards the end of the play is “what comes around goes around”. The people who paid for their lies all had the same fate which was death. One example from King Lear that displays this second theme is when Goneril and Regan take the power and abuse King Lear to insanity. They may have thought that they were going to take advantage of him but in the end they turned on each other because of greed. Edmund leads on both Goneril and Regan and they then become jealous of each other. Goneril starts to show that she does not care for her sister towards the end of play. “[Aside.] I had rather lose the battle than that sister should loosen him and me.” (5.1. 22-23). Goneril decides that only she will have Edmund and no one else will, which leads to her poisoning Regan. “Regan: Sick, O, sick! Goneril: [Aside.] If not, I'll ne'er trust medicine.” (5.3. 111-112). In that scene the poison that was giving to Regan from Goneril started to take effect and Goneril basically said that if Regan is not dying that the poison she gave her is not real. Regan Finally died because of the poison and Goneril realizes she has backed herself into a predicament and kills herself. “It came even from the heart of—O! She’s dead!” (5.3. 260). In the end Goneril and Regan pay for the damage they have done and justice is served. Another example of this second theme is the way Edmund, adopted son of Gloucester

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