Today we jigsawed the various articles about King Lear. Your job for tonight is to come up with a topic and tentative thesis statement. In other words, complete the cream sheet attached to the paper prompt and rubric.
Below are the possible ideas we came up with in class today (but there are certainly many, many more possibilities...):
Ideas to Explore
Truth in Lear
Recognition
Religion
Deceit vs. ending of play
Morality
Sight--insight and/or physical sight
Kent
Edgar's return
Lear's truth in madness
Lear's avoidance of love
the Fool
Lear's relationship with his daughters
Death
Lear vs. Gloucester
the role of women in Lear
deceit with love
changing one's destiny
Gloucester's relationship with sons
old-young
parents-children
government corruption
human nature
manipulation of fear
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