Comparative Essay ID Point
How has the study of Shakespeare’s King Lear and Frears’ The Queen heightened your understanding of the universal ideas or concepts evident in these two texts?
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Introduction:
The way we, as people, understand the world, revolves around our understanding and knowledge of universal ideas and concepts, regardless of cultural, or ethnic backgrounds, and to gain a deeper and heightened understanding of these ideas we can study people through texts, both fictional and historical. These universal ideas are evident in two texts; Shakespeare 's “King Lear”–written between 1604 and 1606– in a time of social disturbance that shook England & Europe, and Frears’ “The Queen”–based on historical events in 1997– during the difficult times of Princess Diana’s suspicious death, and the royal family 's reaction. Both power, leadership, and familial relationships are unmistakably important in these stories, just as important as they are in our story.
Body Paragraph 1 - (Aspect/Idea 1): King Lear Power/Leadership
Power can be a very fragile, and is known to drive people mad because of what they did, didn’t
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During the Elizabethan era, England was an extremely hierarchical society, demanding that absolute deference be paid and respect be shown not only to the wealthy and powerful but also to parents and the elderly. In this hierarchical society would often breed greed, power among the family, people, nobles, rulers as they were all wanted to be above each other, to be more powerful than before, creating a world full of chaos and punishment among the people, disturbing the natural order. King Lear demonstrates how power could lead to the vulnerability to the parents and noblemen are to the depredations of unscrupulous children and thus how fragile the fabric of Elizabethan society actually