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is honest and makes it clear that she loves her father, just like any other daughter would. Cordelia, aside says “What shall Cordelia do? Love and be silent” (1.1.68). Sadly, the king misreads his actions and words and sees her as rude. She is immediately banished from the kingdom and the King of France successfully asks for her hand in marriage. Immediately the youngest daughter is sent away, the two remaining daughters begin to plot for the downfall of their father. They are actually scheming

The Redemption of King Lear?        Shakespeare’s play, King Lear is quite renowned and the folly of the ancient King is a great example of how not to handle family relationships. The question has been proposed  if King Lear is redeemed when reunited with Cordelia. King Lear does achieve a kind of redemption when he is reunited with Cordelia in Acts IV and V of the tragedy.  What kind of redemption he achieves is open to interpretation. 

This allows the reader to better understand the characters as well as give a point of reflection for both characters. Throughout the play, Shakespeare develops King Lear and Gloucester into parallel characters by creating similarities in their relationship with their children, their blindness, in both a literal and figurative sense and their doomed fate. Within the first act of the play, it is shown that both Gloucester and King Lear are ignorant to their children’s true character. First, when King

follows the historical trend and shows how different Chinese and American cultures are, taking mother-daughter bond, husband-wife dyad and sisterhood as vehicles to present the cultural conflicts, concerting these problematic relationship at the end and telling us how possible it is to reunite these two cultures. However, the cultural reconciliation in the real sense is not as simple as the human relationship. It is at most the writer’ and the readers’ beautiful wish. Or we can say there is still a long

A comparison of Anne Bradstreet’s’ “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet” and Edward Taylors’ “Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children.” Taylor and Bradstreet have different relationships to their children in each of their poems. In the poems the writers explain that death, in some way, is a natural course and compare it with the diverse aspects of nature. Both Taylor and Bradstreet attempt to reunite the faith they have in God even when they suffer the loss of a child. These poems seem

At every stage of life, our relationships and families present us with both joys and challenges. Learning to manage stress, to understand our own emotions and behaviors, and to communicate effectively can help strengthen our own emotional health, as well as our connection to the important people in our lives. In “Everyday Use” certain characters I would like to explain the relationships between Mama and her two daughters Dee and Maggie; the relationship that they have towards one another maybe the

in 2004 for a new start after living ten years in a Kenyan refugee camp. These families had to flee their homes to escape the constant warfare that had plagued their area; as a result they ended up in a refugee camp. The one family had their two daughters lost to them because of the attack on their people in their village. These two families enter America with some knowledge about the country, but no actual experience, therefore these people enter as Muslim, immigrants and of a completely different

Jia-yi (Jenny) Cen AP Literature and Composition 23 July 2015 The Joy Luck Club Socratic Seminar Questions The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, exposes the paradoxical relationships between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters. Although both sides experience their own strife in life, the mothers are probably most notable for their struggle in assimilating to society. Given that they are the first generations to have contact with the unfamiliar culture, they must set foot onto the

has two daughters that she treats very differently, and they treat her differently. One daughter looks down on Mother in a condescending manner, and the other is obedient and kind. In "Everyday Use", Walker shows that in relationships between a mother and daughters, adaptation to change can sometimes be very hard, which leads to pride and protecting what one has accomplished, and finally shows how un-appreciation can hinder these relationships. Walker shows that in mother and daughter relationships

than good. Even though white lies may avoid hurting one’s relationship, they break the trust between people. Today’s society has accepted white lies as they provide comfort and boost one’s self esteem; however, in King Lear these little white lies destroy family ties. For example, King Lear asks his daughters to express how strong their love is for their father and the amount of love determines their inheritance. The two eldest daughters shower their father in white lies full of flattery, “Sir, I