• Alaa Sadoon Muhsen

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The idea of vengeance plays a great role in all human societies . Most of the writers
and philosophers have deeply studied it to know its roots and to get the best way to achieve it.
This in turn will lead to happiness and peace in the world.
William Shakespeare is one of those writers who devoted his writing to dig deep in the
significance of vengence . This issue is greatly preoccupied his mind.
The present paper is concerned with the theme of vengeance in Shakespeare's King Lear. Here,
Shakespeare reveals the motives of characters to perform the theme under study.

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