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  • King Lear

    King Lear

    King Lear Assignment 1. Betrayal, Reconciliation, Authority versus Chaos, and Justice are different issues or themes that Shakespeare presents to his audience and asks them to battle and wrestle against. The first issue is the betrayal of the king and of Gloucester, and the reconciliation between them and their loved ones in the end, and the authority versus the chaos in the city on England and finally the Justice issue in which both the bodies

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    Essay Length: 468 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Jack
  • King Lear

    King Lear

    Through the course of the play, King Lear goes through a process of attaining self-knowledge, or true vision of one's self and the world. With this knowledge, he goes through a change of person, much like a caterpillar into a butterfly. In the beginning, King Lear's vanity, and the image and exercise of power dominate his person. But a series of losses (based on his own bad decisions), a "fool" of a conscious, a powerful

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    Essay Length: 1,726 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Anna
  • Theme of Opposites Within King Lear

    Theme of Opposites Within King Lear

    Ah, King Lear, one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies and a pox upon history students everywhere. Kidding! Anyway, while the play had a great many motifs to be considered, one of the most central was the theme of opposites. Not only between characters can we see this theme manifest, but within characters as well, as a few of them turn from people of stature to beggars and the banished, and from villains to heroes. Firstly,

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    Essay Length: 411 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Andrew
  • King Lear Interpersonal Relationships Between Characters Illustrated in Two Different Productions

    King Lear Interpersonal Relationships Between Characters Illustrated in Two Different Productions

    The relationship between characters throughout all of William Shakespeare’s plays can transcend time and relate to audiences today. In the case of King Lear, the themes of family dysfunction, justice and the battle between good and evil have all remained very powerful. Since the original production by the king’s men in 1606 the play has been interpretated in a wide range of contexts. The experience of an audience can be greatly shaped by the direction

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    Essay Length: 953 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Jon
  • King Lear Vs. the Stone Angel

    King Lear Vs. the Stone Angel

    It has been said that, “Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never.”(worldofquotes.com) This is a quote that can be deconstructed when examining William Shakespeare’s King Lear and Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel. When reviewing the two books the main characters, King Lear and Hagar, are easily comparable. The first similarity becomes apparent when King Lear and Hagar are both developed as flawed characters. Secondly, because of their flaws the two characters become blind

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    Essay Length: 1,944 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Anna
  • Artistic Form in King Lear

    Artistic Form in King Lear

    King Lear has remained one of Shakespeare’s best works, and one of the best tragedies of all time, since the beginning of the 17th century; however, some early critics believe that certain elements of the story do not satisfy the criteria for a proper tragedy. The two plot elements under speculation are the subplot and the catastrophic ending. The primary focus of the story is set on the elderly King Lear, whose pride and greed

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    Essay Length: 1,317 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Jack
  • King Lear Summarry

    King Lear Summarry

    In Britain there was a powerful king. His name is King Lear. The story begins when King Lear decides it is time to divide his kingdom, so that he is alive to see if the kingdom will run well without his leadership. He decides to split everything he has within his three daughters Cordelia, Regan, and Goneril. King Lear gives his kingdom for his most loving daughter, which also has to show their love in

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Anna
  • Love in King Lear.

    Love in King Lear.

    Love is defined as a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; it can be extended to people, entities or even inanimate objects. It comes in many different forms and it is so common and prominent in our existence that it has managed to become part of various themes developed in literature and conventional stories. This is no different with King Lear, a tragic play by Williams Shakespeare based on the legend of King Leir,

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    Essay Length: 1,180 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: regina
  • Metamorphosis (on King Lear)

    Metamorphosis (on King Lear)

    Metaorphosis Through the course of the play, King Lear goes through a process of attaining self-knowledge. With this knowledge, he goes through a metamorphosis of person, much like a caterpillar’s change into a butterfly. In the beginning, King Lear's vanity, and the image and exercise of power dominate his person. But a series of losses (based on his own bad decisions), a wise “fool”, a powerful storm, a seemingly crazy man, and the death of

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    Essay Length: 1,394 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Character of the Fool in King Lear

    The Character of the Fool in King Lear

    The very first impression that anyone might have when reading a Shakespearian play that include a fool as one of its characters is that he is used to provide entertainment to the play. Such an impression isn’t, by any mean, correct. Shakespeare, in fact, usually used such characters to say something about human psychology and the way they react to life. In addition, he had that gift of a great writer who had a penetrating

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Tommy
  • The Role and Function of the Fool in King Lear

    The Role and Function of the Fool in King Lear

    Explore the role and function of ‘The Fool’ in ‘King Lear’ The Fool in ‘King Lear’ is a William Shakespeare creation. Shakespeare has the ability to reveal a human character with an exceptional use of language. He allows us to see more than just words on the paper; we’re given a multi dimensional insight into a character. Usually his characters aren’t as straight-forward as black or white, they are invariably more complex. Edmund for example,

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    Essay Length: 2,614 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: David
  • Role of the Foll in Shakespeare’s "king Lear"

    Role of the Foll in Shakespeare’s "king Lear"

    Alison Dew Explore the role of the fool in King Lear. In Elizabethan times, the role of a fool, or court jester, was to professionally entertain others, specifically the king. In essence, fools were hired to make mistakes. Fools may have been mentally retarded youths kept for the court’s amusement, or more often they were singing, dancing stand up comedians. In William Shakespeare’s King Lear the fool plays many important roles. When Cordelia, Lear’s only

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    Essay Length: 407 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • King Lear & a Thousand Acres - the Storms That Loom Within Our Lives

    King Lear & a Thousand Acres - the Storms That Loom Within Our Lives

    King Lear & A Thousand Acres: The Storms That Loom Within Our Lives By D.Dadds World Literature English 206 May 2, 2004 Dadds 1 Thesis Statement: The similarities that have been revealed in King Lear and A Thousand Acres are havoc, turmoil and dysfunction that so many families have been plagued with for centuries. There have been many movies made in the last century that have remarkable similarities to movies and plays made decades ago.

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    Essay Length: 1,511 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: regina
  • King Lear and Hamlet

    King Lear and Hamlet

    There are a lot of similarities in the two Shakespeare plays HAMLET and KING LEAR. I guess its because of the style in which Shakespeare wrote. William Shakespeare wrote three kinds of stories: comedy, tragedy and history. Both of these books are tragedies and they are very similar tragedies. In both of these stories there is a feud going on within the family. And in both the feud is between the children and their parents

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    Essay Length: 521 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Edward
  • Comparison Between King Lear and a Thousand Acres

    Comparison Between King Lear and a Thousand Acres

    King Lear and A Thousand Acres have many things similar seeing that A Thousand Acres is based upon King Lear but it is the differences between these works that establishes each as a prominent mark upon literature. You can draw many ties between the works by looking at the characters and the overall synopsis of the plot. A lot of the differences occur with the characters’ temperaments, the setting, and the perspective that the story

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Fonta
  • A Thousand Acres Vs. King Lear

    A Thousand Acres Vs. King Lear

    A Thousand Acres vs. King Lear By: Lisa Hohol Mrs. Fair ENG 4U1 Nov. 30th/06 The film “A Thousand Acres” is a reworking of the novel King Lear. Both novels contain primary themes that are common to one another, although there are some differences. The primary theme that is familiar to both is the generational struggle between the young and old. The old, who through the power they hold, end up corrupting relationships between

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Kevin
  • King Lear - Family: A Medium for A Betrayal

    King Lear - Family: A Medium for A Betrayal

    “Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.” (John LeCarre) In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear, characters are betrayed by the closest people to them. The parents betray their children, mostly unintentionally. The children deceive their parents because of their greed and power hunger. Their parents were eventually forgiven, but the greedy children were not. Parents and their children betray one and other, and are only able

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The Theme of Madness in King Lear

    The Theme of Madness in King Lear

    According to the Paperback Canadian Oxford Dictionary, to be mad is to be “insane” and to have “a disordered mind.” Throughout King Lear, there are several different characters who one would question if they are in an orderly state of mind. The Earl of Kent, Edgar, the Fool, and King Lear all portray varying degrees of madness. Some have alternative motives behind their madness while others are simply losing touch with reality around them. The

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    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: regina
  • What Is Love, a Comparison of Love in Othello and King Lear

    What Is Love, a Comparison of Love in Othello and King Lear

    What is love? Love is the pinnacle of all emotions, it is the epicenter for life, what is the point of living if there is no love, ironically love is the cause of many a down fall. William Shakespeare has single handedly captured and embraced this necessary feeling and has allowed us to view in on it through the characters in his two masterpieces, Othello and King Lear. Three different kinds of loves explored

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: regina
  • King Lear

    King Lear

    The main character of the play would be King Lear who in terms of Bradley would be the hero and hold the highest position is the social chain. Lear, out of pride and anger, has banished Cordelia and split the kingdom in half between the two older sisters, Goneril and Regan. This is Lear's tragic flaw that prevents him from seeing the true faces of people because his pride and anger overrides his judgement. As

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Christian Versus a Nihilist Interpretation of King Lear

    Christian Versus a Nihilist Interpretation of King Lear

    Christian Versus a Nihilist Interpretation of King Lear Traditional, orthodox or dominant views are opposed by resistant, variant, dissident, divergent, subversive, aberrant or niche ones. King Lear arouses dialectical or polemic interpretations because it, like most of Shakespeare’s tragedies is a problematic play raising complex questions without providing neat pat solutions. Until 1962, the play was presented in either the sanitised and now totally discredited Nahum Tate’s version with a fairy tale “everyone lived happily

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jack
  • King Lear

    King Lear

    Shakespeare: King Lear intentional 3a) From the text it can be seen that Edmund has been set as one of the Villains of the play. His inexorable position as a bastard in society has made Edmund bitter and resentful, “I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my basterdizing.” Edmund feels a desire for the recognition denied to him by his status as a bastard. There is

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Jon
  • Questioned Identity in King Lear

    Questioned Identity in King Lear

    Joshua Mellinger English 3100 10/29/06 Questioned Identity in King Lear “Shakespeare's plays are written from a male perspective and depict predominantly conflicts of masculine identity.” (Rudnytsky 2) Throughout Shakespeare’s King Lear, the issue of identity is touched on repeatedly with Gloucester’s fall from power, Edmund’s snatching of it, and Lear’s violent fall from benevolent king to brutish castaway. Lear and Gloucester’s sanity is crushed, their sovereignty completely stripped, sense of fatherhood scrambled, and their masculinity

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: David
  • King Lear

    King Lear

    King Lear is widely regarded as Shakespeare's crowning artistic achievement. The scenes in which a mad Lear rages naked on a stormy heath against his deceitful daughters and nature itself are considered by many scholars to be the finest example of tragic lyricism in the English language. Shakespeare took his main plot line of an aged monarch abused by his children from a folk tale that appeared first in written form in the 12th century

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: regina
  • Justice in King Lear

    Justice in King Lear

    King Lear Essay Although some critics may debate and argue against this statement, I strongly stand by my belief that there is no justice in the play King Lear. Whether it be Cordelia’s banishment, Gloucester’s torture, or Lear’s insanity, no character in this play is shown mercy. Then again, perhaps this is why William Shakespeare’s works are called tragedies. Throughout his entire writing career, Shakespeare has been known to end all of his tragedies with

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    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Jack

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