CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S KING LEAR: A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH

This research paper elaborates conflict of interest in William Shakespeare’s drama script, King Lear, that are analyzed through sociological approach. The objectives of the research are to analyze the structural elements of the novel and to analyze the novel based on sociological perspective by identifying the relationship between the novel and the social background of English society in the sixteenth century. This research belongs to a qualitative research. The data of the research is the drama script of King Lear. Whereas the data source comes from both primary data source which is in the form of the drama script being researched and secondary data source such as biography of the author, websites and other sources about the drama script, the approach and the social background of English society that support the analysis. The method to analyze the data is descriptive analysis. Having analyzed the drama script, the researcher comes to the conclusions as follows: conflict of interest in King Lear are mostly found in the characters drawn by William Shakespeare who live in upper classes and glamorous way of life, the theme depicts the intimate and reverent attitudes toward the competition and seize of life which create inharmonious life towards the characters of the drama. Finally, it can be concluded that conflict occurs in upper class to get a power and propertie