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    Ophelia In Hamlet Essay

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    Polonius, Ophelia’s father, embodies the theories the Other and a lack of female agency while discussing with Ophelia a similar case to her brother. In act 1 scene 3 of Hamlet, Polonius decides to inform Ophelia of the same matters that Laertes provides her. While Ophelia is departing from sending off her brother, Polonius asks Ophelia what her and her brother were discussing, resulting in her receiving unsolicited advice from her father on how to handle Hamlet’s sexual and romantic advances. Polonius

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    King Lear And Hamlet Essay

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    The concept of madness and those who suffer from its hold is something that is apparent in both Shakespeare’s Hamlet and King Lear, both plays treat madness in similar ways - it is often not understood by the characters, it is often feminized and there are characters who choose to assume madness for their own specific reasons. Another similarity is that both plays have two central characters that suffer from madness, each has one character whose madness is real and each has a character whose madness

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    Audiences love knowing who is the villain of a story. There's a certain power in seeing something not visible to the other characters, recognizing a seed of hatred blooming behind the scenes. It brings a sense of satisfaction, actively rooting against the antagonist so that the hero can win. Seeing the difference between good and bad isn't easy in real life, but in a fictional world all of the rules change, and the audience knows the truth. In King Lear, Goneril and Regan, daughters to the king,

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    Motives In King Lear

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    A person’s worth is never defined by their external appearances, such as their physical features or titles, but it lies in the internal thoughts that they base their actions upon. Act I of King Lear, by William Shakespeare, explores the idea that individuals are defined by their personal values and motives. This can be seen in the deceitful Goneril and Regan, the good Cordelia, and the knowledgeable fool. First, both Goneril and Regan give beautiful words of love to their father, King Lear, but

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    Goneril was the initial influence to why Regan restored honor through the acts she committed. Regan never inquired lies Goneril told her against their father. This initially portrayed Regan to be less wicked than Goneril. However, since both sisters decided to form an alliance when Goneril says, “let's hit together”, Regan’s consistency against Lear increased, resulting with Goneril controlling Regan’s mind with misinterpretations about their father and his knights. This results in the first honor

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    King Lear Act 1 Scene 4

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    In act 1 scene 4, Goneril picks up a fight with king Lear because she thinks that he is letting his entourage get out of control. Albany, Goneril’s husband enters during the middle of the argument and is curious about what is going on. When he shows up, he says, "My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant / Of what hath moved you" (1.4.274-275). The reason he does not understand why the king is distressed when he shows up in their argument is because he does not keep track of what his wife is doing

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    Lear and Family Essay

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    The Importance of Family Family is what defines one's character and identity. Shakespeare's tragic play, King Lear, presents a ruling family and how its members' relationships affect one another. The crumbling relationship between King Lear and his daughters exemplifies his struggle to maintain his role in his family and his identity within the state. Lear explains that human nature is marked by a desire for more than just the necessities one already has. Lear needs more than the

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    In the play King Lear, by William Shakespeare, the playwright shows that when individuals, who lack self esteem and have insecurities, they often lose foresight, driving them to make irrational decisions, resulting in their mental breakdown. In the classic play, expressions are inverted in King Lear, manufacturing a circumstance in which those with good sight, don't have any knowledge of what is going on around them. In the beginning of the play, we viewed that King Lear, makes a very wrong decision

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    Goneril feels jealousy towards her youngest sister Cordelia due to her strong relationship with King Lear, something Goneril never had with Lear. Goneril feels as though her father has reprimanded her all of her life and could never accept her. “You see how full of changes his age is; the observation we have made of it hath (not) been little. He always loved our sister most, and with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off appears too grossly.” (1.1.290-293) In this quote Goneril addresses the

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    The two eldest daughters of King Lear, are portrayed as villains from the beginning of the novel. Both Regan and Goneril are very much alike, both being wicked and cruel. From the first act of the play in the most flattering of love to their father for part of the kingdom, to the last act in the poisoning of Regan and suicide of Goneril; they progressively become worse as the play develops. Goneril, the eldest of King Lear’s three daughters, is a ruthless, amoral, and jealous woman. She takes

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