Essay Archive - King Lear: Journey To Expiate Sin
King Lear: Journey To Expiate Sin
Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear is a detailed description of the
consequences of one man's decisions. This fictitious man is Lear, King of
England, who's decisions greatly alter his life and the lives of those
around him. As Lear bears the status of King he is, as one expects, a man
of great power but sinfully he surrenders all of this power to his
daughters as a reward for their demonstration of love towards him. This
untime abdication of his throne results in a chain reaction of events that
send him through a journey of hell. ....
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