Is King Lear to Blame?
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(5 pp) In the modern world would we blame an eighty- year old man for much of anything? We might say, to ourselves, he didn't know what he was doing, he's old, forget it. Such were not the lessons that Shakespeare wanted to impress on us with the story of King Lear. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Job & King Lear/Meaning in Suffering
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A 3 page essay that compares and contrasts the Book of Job and Shakespeare's King Lear, arguing that both narratives convey the theme that suffering has meaning and produce worthwhile consequences. No additional sources cited.
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Justice in William Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” and “King Lear”
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A 5 page paper which considers the fairness of systems of punishment administered by fallible magistrates, discusses how these plays engaged contradictions between justice as an ideal and justice as a set of procedures for enforcement of a legal code, how Shakespeare’s treatment of the theme shapes both plays, and whether or not the nature of the critique is different in a comedy than in a tragedy. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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King Lear
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This 8–page paper examines the climactic moments of the play, how they are connected and how they work together to help us understand the play's meaning. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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King Lear & His Multi-faceted Personality
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A 7 page paper examining King Lear in terms of the statement 'The power of Shakespeare's plays is that they present man simultaneously in all his aspects.' It argues that in Lear Shakespeare created a character who encompasses good and evil, power and weakness, greed and generosity -- in short, all human attributes -- within one personality, and does so convincingly. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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King Lear & The Question Of Man
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This 4 page paper examines the William Shakespeare play, King Lear in terms of how it inherently attempts to answer the question, "What is man?"
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King Lear / Always A Positive Outcome
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A 5 page paper discussing the view that no matter how much adversity Lear faced, there was always a way for him to rectify things, that he was always in control and each decision would ultimately reap a positive end. Argument uses only Shakespeare's play. No additional sources cited.
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