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Shakespeare teaches us evil is a powerful force. The rapidity of its advancement in the four main tragedies is as shocking as it is terrifying for the audience. Goodness and integrity seem to capitulate to the dark machinations of a few pathological characters motivated by dark desires and impulses. 

But Shakespeare, more importantly, teaches us that goodness and hope are unwavering forces that ultimately prevail in the end. In one of the most brutal and blood-filled scenes in all of Shakespeare’s work, when Gloucester is tied to the chair and his eyes are being plucked out by Cornwall, from the shadows steps a servant to protect Gloucester. At a moment, when the world seems devoid of justice and righteousness, the servant’s actions illuminate that goodness never fully concedes to the powers of evil.