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Much Ado About Nothing?
Title: Much Ado About Nothing?
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1016 | Pages: 4.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Much Ado About Nothing?
The concept that nothing is a crucial and even integral element of man’s existence, this paradox of the importance of nothing, has been a difficult one for man to grasp. In his renowned play King Lear, William Shakespeare attempts, through the story of a king suffering the consequences of his poor judgment in assessing the character of each of his three daughters, to illustrate the significance of nothing.
In the opening scene of the …showed first 75 words of 1016 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1016 total…loses his mind as well, reduced to nothing mentally. Lear’s dismissal of Cordelia with nothing leads to her death, and finally, at the conclusion of the play, nothing remains of Lear or his family. Lear spurs series of events himself in the first scene of the play, with a single question of what flattery each of his daughters will offer in order to win their share of his kingdom, to which Cordelia replies, “Nothing.”
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