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    Should you take risks for the person you love? Some can argue that you shouldn’t take risks for the ones you love. It really depends on if the the one you love will take the same risk for you. You should not be the only one taking risks. If you love someone and will do anything for that person your love for that person must be very strong‚ but sometimes you can be deeply in love with a person and they don’t feel the same as you do. You should remove yourself from that situation‚ it may not be easy

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    shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided?In three our kingdom” (1.2) .king Lear is blinded by manipulative personalities of his two daughter’s Regan and Goneril‚ he fails to reveal their true intentions of humiliating him and take advantage of him in order to benefit themselves. Being blinded by the need to be loved by his daughters king Lear delegates his authority to them. The desperation of the king who wanted to hear his daughter declare their love for

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    Shakespeare’s King Lear is a Jacobean play that explores numerous themes of destruction‚ loyalty and natural law that were so prominent in his context. In the play Gloucester has a bastard son whose character reflects his immoral conception and who actively resents the limitations of his birth. While Jacobean England was undergoing numerous social changes because of factors such as increased trade‚ greater education and a forming middle class‚ Edmund represents the limitations in social mobility

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    William Shakespeare play: King Lear “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice “by Abraham Lincoln. Many people believed that if society wanted to continue to live in an orderly and supportive world‚ then mercy was essentially required. There must be key qualifications one must possess in order to achieve in having mercy. Firstly‚ kindness was a key quality in showing mercy as it can restore even the severely broken relationships between people. Secondly‚ by

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    What part does deception of one kind or another play in Shakespeare’s King Lear? King Lear is a fictional tragedy written by William Shakespeare in 1604. The play provides a detailed description of the consequences of one man’s actions. Shakespeare displays deception as an act to cause someone to believe something that is untrue‚ or to mislead. There are five primary forms of deception that are displayed in King Lear: Lies‚ equivocations‚ concealments‚ exaggerations and understatements. Through

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    William Shakespeare’s King Lear is a timeless play whose textual integrity lends itself to a variety of interpretations and in exploring the human condition the text remains relevant across a wide range of contexts. It is possible to present the text as exploring and affirming the human condition‚ where humanity is defined as the ability to love and empathise. However‚ in the same instance‚ a nihilist perspective‚ such as Peter Brooke’s 1971 production of King Lear‚ challenges this by outlining that

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    Alondra Elizarraras English IV AP/DC – period 7 Ms. Stokes October 6‚ 2013 Woolf: Shakespeare’s Sister “Shakespeare’s Sister” by Virginia Woolf describes a story about Shakespeare’s sister and how being a woman she would have been treated and what types of opportunities she would have had compared to men. What kind of life would she have? What kind of education would she be given? Would she be a playwright like her brother with the same kind of talent? During the time of Shakespeare‚ his

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    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 and was based on spoken stories that originated much further

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    King Lear: General Introduction The epic tragedy‚ King Lear‚ has often been regarded as Shakespeare’s greatest masterpiece‚ if not the crowning achievement of any dramatist in Western literature. This introduction to King Lear will provide students with a general overview of the play and its primary characters‚ in addition to selected essay topics. Studying a Shakespearean play deepens students’ appreciation for all literature and facilitates both their understanding of themes and symbolism in

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    Exile or even exclusion has shown to have deep effects on a person. It can break you down from the person you once strived to be‚ or it can make you into a more enriched person. In Shakespeare’s King Lear‚ the character‚ Kent‚ went through an exile that caused his character to have a potent and enriching experience. His experience alienated him from the relationship he and the king once shared‚ but eventually led to him letting out his feelings to an unsuspecting fellow‚ creating a closer relationship

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