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More Comparing Lear and 1,000 Acres. Think about this and then write about it. You don’t have to use the 11-sentence paragraph format, but still write a good, thorough paragraph.
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More Comparing Lear and 1,000 Acres Think about this and then write about it. You don’t have to use the 11-sentence paragraph format, but still write a good, thorough paragraph. Although A Thousand Acres and King Lear are essentially the same story with many of the same themes, they differ in this important way: in 1,000 Acres, the parents are the bad guys, while in King Lear, the children are the villains.
Why is this, do you think? How are our modern ideas about the appropriate relationship between parents and children different from that of Shakespeare’s day? Think back to the discussion you did when we first started this unit. What, in our modern view, do children owe their parents, and what do parents owe their children? In Shakespeare’s day, how were these beliefs different?