In each of us there lies a king. This is how we comfort ourselves whenever the measly portion of comfort that life has allotted us seems to get smaller. We like to fill ourselves with a sense of self-worth, of deserving the respect of a king, insisting that we can nobly rise above the struggles, decisions and complications which plague human life. Unfortunately, this is a fruitless task since no one, not even kings, can escape the moral duties which are part of human existence. The eternal toil of humanity is present in the play King Lear, by William Shakespeare. To display the universality of human existence, Shakespeare has placed each of us inside a king, instead of the other way round. In this way, King Lear becomes an embodiment of every individual, and the play itself becomes a critique of society which provides a moral similar to the 15th Century morality play, Everyman. Everyman's quest willing to find someone to die with him follows human nature through the maze of......

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Title: Everyking
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