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05-09-2006, 05:38 PM
|  | ShortOrderCookOnABender | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: reading
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| | | king lear
Someone tell me something intelligent and original to put in my essay entitled "What is tragic about King Lear?".
please pretty please. all i can think of is the obvious. |
05-10-2006, 01:57 PM
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| | | Is this the one with Ophelia? |
05-11-2006, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by badbadllama Someone tell me something intelligent and original to put in my essay entitled "What is tragic about King Lear?".
please pretty please. all i can think of is the obvious. | What've you got? I've never read it, but I've pretended to, and blagged conversations...
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05-11-2006, 04:10 PM
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| | | in legend lear, or leir, is the founder of leicester, that's the fucking tragedy |
05-11-2006, 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Riotfug Is this the one with Ophelia? | No that's Hamlet.
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05-11-2006, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Riotfug Is this the one with Ophelia? | Oh no, that's Hamlet. |
05-11-2006, 04:48 PM
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| | | cordelia
sounds a bit like ophelia
innit |
05-13-2006, 05:31 PM
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| | | I've never studied it in enough detail to be able to make an intellegent comment but did enjoy reading it.
How is your essay structured, what are your main points in showing Lear as tragic?
Have you used any internet resources? |
05-18-2006, 12:06 AM
|  | WhatWouldSteveCarellDo? | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Baltimore, MD
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| | | Lear--one of the darkest of Shakespeare's tragedies! I loved it! |
05-20-2006, 02:19 AM
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| | | edit: nevermind
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05-23-2006, 07:18 PM
| | don't say no to disco | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: London
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| | | i think what happens to cordelia is the most tragic. usually the deaths in a tragedy are people who in some way deserve it. the hero does as s/he has the tragic flaw that brings about their undoing.
cordelia's death seems somewhat uncalled for. in fact, for a long time, an alternative ending was staged in which she lived. i think it was written in the 1800s sometime and was corny as hell, i did read it once.
also i find gloucester more tragic than lear | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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