King Lear: Is Lear a bleak, nihilistic play, or a hopeful one? The play King Lear can easily be portrayed as one that is bleak, and nihilistic but this in not the case. Many people interpret the play to be about the wrongful acts of others and the effects that they cause. That is not the case. The truth is that the play King Lear is quite opposite of this and is actually about the …showed first 75 words of 730 total…

…showed last 75 words of 730 total…he wants to die with some nobility in him. This leads us back to believing that there is always hope no matter how bad a situation. The play of King Lear, could easily be interpreted as a bleak nihilistic play because of all the betrayal and malice that many of the characters show, but this is just a disguise for the play's true meaning that no matter how bad the circumstance there is always hope.