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Wandsworth can currently hold 1628 prisoners and is one of the largest prisons in Western Europe. The prison was built in 1851, and the residential areas remain in the original buildings. Since 1989, there has been extensive refurbishment and modernisation of the wings, including in-cell sanitation, privacy screens for cells occupied by more than one prisoner and the more recent installation of in-cell electricity.

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The play ends with the moral that power should be held by people chosen by God,

not by those chosen by other people, as they will become corrupt

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Lear is raised up - powerful

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King Lear | RSC Education | Royal Shakespeare Company

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The first 15 minutes of Trinity Theatre Company's production of "King Lear", directed by Francesca Gilpin and starring Michael Elliot in the title role.

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Edagr's raise to power, and the death of characters such as Edmund, suggests the play is more about justice and the natural order of the kingdom. Edgar hasn't searched for power, property, or inheritance in the play so his gain in power can be seen as a display of justice being achieved.

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Regan and Cornwall's brutality in the trail of Gloucester, is a display of their power,

and the intoxication of their minds through power. Gloucestser's punishment has already

been decided before he enters the scene and the brutality of it outways his crime, their

unnecerssary crulety and savage nature, are a result of their power-thirsty minds and

supports the view that the play is about power.

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Goneril and Regan send Lear's knights away - he has no power (impotency), his

knights are like his clothing - defining who he is. This shows how the roles have reversed.

His lack of power is shown again as he makes empty threats to his two daughters 'I will do

such things,/ What they are, yet I know not' (A 2 S 4 L277-278)

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Feminist point of view - power is held by Goneril and Regan - did Shakespeare

see 'men and women as equal in a world which declared them as unequal'
, or is he warning that women with power are corrupt and dangerous?

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A Marxist view on King Lear could be, the play focuses more on self-knowledge, and of the realisation through fained madness or the loss of ones mind, and the path to  self-awarness as a result of this. For example Edgar's fained madness which leads him to gain the characteristics needed to confront Edmund and become King.

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King Lear can be seen from a Christian viewpoint as a journey to redemption (pilgramage - storm) and a criticism of materlism

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King Lear could be seen as a critism of capitalism, warning the audience against materialism and greed as the capitalistic characters all end up dying.

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Lear's biggest mistake is giving away his property and power to his daughters

which fuel his, and many other characters downfalls in the play - "Which of you shall we say doth love us most?

That we our largest bounty may extend"

It is Lear's greed and vanity that causes him to give away his power in such a fashion and causes the loss of his mind.

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Cordelia is seen as property - 'But now her price is fallen' (A1 S1 L96)
, allows us to see the play in feminist terms

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Edmund's betrayal of Edgar in his attempted to take Edgar's inheritance and gain power
, he is Machiavellian character

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Regan and Goneril's flattery of Lear supports this view, as the lengths they go to to gain power
corrupt the kingdom.