Summative
KING LEAR ESSAY OUTLINE
Introduction:
Shakespeare’s play King Lear is about a king who has retired his throne to what he thought was his two loving daughters. He banished his daughter Cordelia because he felt at the time she did not respect nor love him. This was a complete mistake. He turns mad after foolishly giving his unloving daughters all the title. King Lear is definitely a tragedy and it is evident this play is a tragedy of parents and children, of pride and ingratitude.
Topic Sentence: To start off, to show the tragedy between parents and children, is the relationship of King Lear and his 2 unloving and scheming daughters.
Example: “I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws, Or ere I’ll weep. O fool, I shall go mad.
Explain: This is what King Lear says right after his daughters are trying to strip him away from his knights and attendents. What Regan and Goneril are doing are stripping him away from all his authority and power, driving him mad.This shows the cruelties that King Lear’s daughters are putting him through.
Concluding Sentence: Therefore it is evident there was a tragedy between King Lear and his own daughters.
Topic Sentence 2: During Shakespeare’s play King Lear there were multiple tragedies. One of the tragedies was the factor of pride and ingratitude.
Example: “Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity, and property of blood, and as a stranger to my heart, and me hold thee from this forever.”
Five days we do allot thee for provision to shield thee from diseases of the world and on the sixth to turn thy hated back upon our kingdom”
Explain: So what just happened in this quote is King Lear now banished his loyal and modest Kent. Kent meant no harm, but only knew himself Cordelia was the loving daughter. This shows King Lear’s pride got to him because he would not go back on his word and would not even listen to Kent