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KING LEAR
Date Submitted: 02/03/2001 12:57:33
King lear Assignment
Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear is a detailed description of
the consequences of one man's decisions. This fictitious man is
Lear, King of England, who's decisions greatly alter his life and
the lives of those around him. As Lear bears the status of King he
is, as one expects, a man of great power but sinfully he surrenders
all of this power to his daughters as a reward for their
demonstration of love
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times. There is the feeling of fear
in the play which is of a King losing his crown and becoming a
peasant. Lear has also created a chain reaction that affects
everything down the chain. The element of chance is also
introduced in the play with Edgar and Oswald, Oswald possessing the
letter to Edmund. And the final part is the death of King Lear
dying in suffering of the death of his daughter Cordelia.
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