Ian Holm

Despite the strikingly similar characterizations between King Lear in King Lear and Larry in A Thousand Acres, the path and outcome that both characters go through have different elements. At the beginning of the play King Lear, Lear is insolent and insecure; he wants to hear his daughters tell him how much they love him and how powerful he is. When his youngest and favourite daughter Cordelia does not say what he wants to hear, he banishes her from the kingdom due to his pride, “Hence, and avoid

The Human Need to Reconcile the Uncertainties of the Past With New or Present Situation In William Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, the subjects of Lear have severed many ties and allegiances early on in the play. Edmund severs ties with his father, Gloucester and his brother, Edgar, in an attempt to earn the respect that he has been longing for his whole life. Cordelia also severs ties with King Lear in an attempt to show Lear’s foolishness in his askings to prove how much each of the sisters love

In Shakespeare’s King Lear, the audience is confronted with many contrasts—a wise fool, reason in madness, insight of a blind man, and the power of the powerless. Through these contradictions, the audience and the characters are challenged to stop limiting what’s within by external appearances. In the beginning, King Lear holds a lot of political agency but has no power over his happiness as he looks to his daughters’ words of love for confirmation. The sisters that verbally express the most love

Cordelia’s death, which often causes questions of justice can surely be justified, because she is the sacrifice that Lear has to make for him to be closer to the truth of reality. “Now our joy,/ Although our last and least,” (1, 1, 91). King Lear has three daughters; Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, and as evident in this quote, out of the three daughters, his most favoured and beloved daughter is Cordelia, and he openly expresses his love for her. Unlike her barbarous sisters, Goneril and Regan, the

In William Shakespeare’s novel King Lear, he portrays the arduous relationship between King Lear and each of his three daughters. Shakespeare uses tone and syntax to reveal the theme of deception. The play starts off with King Lear, who is getting ready to abdicate his throne, and wants to choose a successor. He tests each of his daughters by asking them how much they love him. His two older daughters, Goneril and Regan, passionately profess their love for Lear, and the youngest, Cordelia, bluntly

Inner Journey Assessment William F Buckley quoted “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start at all”. This quote relates to journeys, specifically to inner journeys with the intention that many journeys are difficult and if individuals knew how difficult the journey was going to be, then most of us would not even commence the journey. A journey is simply a movement from one place to another. Physical journeys are gateways to inner journeys, which

Is there a way to pinpoint the exact moment one becomes an “adult”? Many argue that this moment is created by a series of revelations and exposure to the world of adulthood. In the case of Briony Tallis from Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement and Ralph from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies we see two children sharing comparable internal struggles associated with a loss of innocence. Due to their lack of parental support upon their loss of innocence both Briony and Ralph enter into a territory completely

show privilege of one way of perceiving the world over the other in their conclusions. Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love, shows favour of Joe’s scientific and rational view but also demonstrates that it is flawed. Similarly, Tennessee Williams shows that realism in inevitable but is not always desirable in the play A Streetcar Names Desire. Both texts explore explore the responses of their protagonists of a crisis with Ian McEwan’s post-modern novel Enduring Love showing the destruction of Joe Rose’s world

The novella The Atonement by Ian McEwan produces a reoccurring theme of lost innocence. The children in the novella lose their childhood innocence after one wrongful accusation which tears the Tallis family apart. The setting in the novella develops the mood to be light and airy as the Tallis family resides in the English countryside. Nonetheless, the light and airy mood changes to one that is dark and full of mystery as the Second World War starts. Each character is tested by themselves and others

Compare how Atonement and Spies explore the journey from innocence to experience. Both Atonement and Spies are bildungsroman where the protagonists are reminiscing about events in their childhoods which impose on them in their adult lives. In Atonement, Briony is narrating throughout the text; however the reader only finds this out at the end and in Spies Stephen is narrating with his older and younger self through duel narration with slippage between the two. Both text were published within a year