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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 437 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
King Lear
Robert Adams
British Literature
17 April 2001
Families play quite a large role in our world. They shape and develop individuals, leaving their fingerprints on one’s life and personality forever. An institution as important as family life could never be ignored in any art form and literature is no different. Families have been the main subject of countless numbers of novels, poems, short stories, and plays. In the three works A Thousand Acres, King Lear, and …showed first 75 words of 437 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 437 total…attempts to gain his favor and in turn his riches. Larry Cook is stuck in the same situation. Like Lear, Cook is basking in the glow of his daughters’ “love” not knowing that the love they are professing to him is counterfeit and motivated by greed. Not only are these men lied to and jilted by their daughters, they also have sons who betray them.
Smiley, Jane. A Thousand Acres. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1991.
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