In King Lear by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare recounts the tragedy of King Lear as he fails to recognize his tragic flaw and thus falls into tragedy and unintentionally takes others with him. Over the course of the show, tragedy strikes undeserving people and they suffer greatly even though they have done nothing to deserve their suffering. Although Gloucester, Edgar, and Cordelia all live happy lives at the beginning of the play, they experience great suffering despite their inner goodness, a fact that highlights Shakespeare's belief in the blindness of justice that does not necessarily affect only the wicked. In the play, the good-hearted Earl of Gloucester suffers at the hands of his illegitimate son Edmund and the king's wicked daughters, Goneril and Regan. Gloucester loves his son Edgar and consequently gave him the land. Edmund wishes to take these lands from his brother but to do so he must topple Edgar from his father's good graces. Edmund devises a plan and says, “A credulous father and a noble brother/Whose nature is so far from doing harm/That he suspects none” (1.2.187-189). Edmund quickly and skillfully begins to put doubt in his father's mind about Edgar and soon manages to falsely convince his confident father that Edgar wants to kill him. Falsely believing his son Edmund, Gloucester believes his actions to bring Edgar to "justice" are appropriate and sends (search patrols to find his son) to do so. Gloucester also defends and helps King Lear, even though his two evil daughters told him so. Gloucester cannot bear to see King Lear in such a miserable state and goes against his daughters' wishes when he says, "I would not see your cruel nails / Tear... half the paper..." stoop to his sisters' standards while they exaggerated their love for their father to receive more land. In the end, Cordelia receives fair justice for trying to do the right thing throughout the show. Throughout the play, Gloucester, Edgar, and Cordelia all falsely receive justice even though they have benevolent hearts and have never done anything to deserve the punishments they receive. Justice seems to affect the good more than the wicked in the work that helps to show the blindness of justice. Justice has a negative connotation throughout the play which helps to show Shakespeare's disbelief in true "justice". Justice seems to choose its victims randomly and senselessly, demonstrating Shakespeare's belief that justice does not exist. Overall, the injustice of the righteous suffering because of justice proves that true justice does not exist in society.