Shakespeare's The Tragedy of King Lear is a political play. ... Cordelia's death brings to Lear his sanity and true sight, and to the audience a realisation also, and he now sees that neither orders battling for supremacy was natural and just. ... After her rape and miscarriage now called Cordelia, her new "morality is a form of violence". ... This can be seen played out in the plays of Arthur Miller, where his subject is the "everyman" who is responsible for his own destruction. ... Looking at Beckett's Endgame may illuminate further the problem inherent in modern tragedy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Now the communists were officially allied with Britain, and this caused rifts regarding how to handle Poland. Churchill admitted having cloudy morals regarding the lack of assistance Britain could give Poland because of the tight rope act they were having to play with their new alliance, "...we had a strong obligation to support the interest of our first ally. ... Jewish, communist, and other groups began operating with increasing pace and all had a different political endgame in mind for post-war Poland. The government-sanctioned units of the Underground Army became targets for scathing...

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