I thought about Claudius's quote from Hamlet, how he wanted to see the light, when he was overcome by his guilt. In the case of Hamlet, however, the "light" is a very dark thing, and some type of distraction from it would be the light Claudius was referring to.
What I thought of is the metaphor for light as smarts -- someone who is bright vs. someone who is dim. Just an interesting thought to tie intelligence into the truth concept, because both Hamlet and Claudius were what we would call bright -- conversational wizards. There exists a contrast between they and the rest of the cast, for example, Polonius, who is dim, and would have a hard time seeing the light.
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