Hermia spends a considerable time scolding Lysander while attempting to distance herself from him, knowing the implication of an unmarried woman sleeping with a man. ... A recurring theme in Shakespeare's plays is men using their daughters to establish political alliances. ... Prospero's plotting, in The Tempest, can also be used as an example, though he is more subtle and attuned to his daughter's desires.

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Changing the setting, time, character's names, and small events, Smiley finished her novel with an extreme comparison to Shakespeare's Lear. ... The first example of this is near the beginning when Lear reveals he is splitting up his kingdom among his three daughters. This leads to the daughters ruling the kingdom while their father is still alive. ... At the opening of the play, Lear decides to split his kingdom between his three daughters; this is the first time the reader is exposed to the theme of inversion of the natural order. ... Still, similar to the play, when his younges...

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His third daughter, Cordelia, was shunned upon and left France and Lear. ... In the beginning of Act III Lear proclaims his sorrow and regret and for the first time the audience sees Lear loosing his grip of sanity. ... "Twas this flesh begot Those pelican daughters." ... Meanwhile Cordelia is back in France at the same time and takes Lear into her care. ... Lear must live with the fact that he betrayed the one loyal daughter he had and honored the two disloyal daughters. ...

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His two eldest daughters overwhelmed their father with expressions of love, but the youngest told her father that she loved her father as a daughter should. Enraged at his youngest daughter's reply, Lear drove her into exile and divided the kingdom between his two eldest daughters. ... Hence, the king went in search of his youngest daughter. ... Shakespeare utilized this British legend to create what is arguably one of the greatest tragedies of all time. ... He uses these tools to interrupt the mounting tension while making his points at the same time. ...

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In November 27, 1582, Shakespeare was allowed to get married, and at his time he was 18, to Anne Hathaway, who was 26. They had three kids, two of them being twins named Hamnet (boy) and Judith (girl), and the other being a daughter named Susanna. ... Around the time of the fire Shakespeare retired to Stratford, where he had established his family and become a prominent citizen. ... Shakespeare left the bulk of his estate to his daughter Susanna and the sum of 300 pounds to his daughter Judith. ... Their daughter died childless. ...

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The first introduction to "good nature" is Cordelia, King Lear's youngest daughter. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He is very brash and quick-tempered, which is not necessarily a good trait, but at the same time not necessarily purely evil. ...

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The first introduction to "good nature" is Cordelia, King Lear's youngest daughter. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He is very brash and quick-tempered, which is not necessarily a good trait, but at the same time not necessarily purely evil. ...

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The setting of King Lear is as far removed from Shakespeare's time as the setting of any of his other plays, dramatizing events from the eighth century b.c. ... Annesley's youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister. ... Annesley's youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister. ... Annesley's youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister. ... Annesley's youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister. ...

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It is evident that the King is more "sinned against than sinning-, as his daughters betray him, and conspire to kill him. After dividing his kingdom, Lear grants everything to his daughters on the condition that he retains the title as King, keeps his entourage, and that he would stay with each daughter for a certain time. ... Lear becomes heart broken and turns to his other daughter, Regan, to seek shelter. ... The king has given up everything for his daughter, yet their corrupt use of power turns them into greedy and ungrateful beasts, who refuse to give the King his pride and honour. ....

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Both women are seen as daughters, caregivers, future wives, and mothers-society's most prized possessions. ... Social and war-time duties are overthrown when Saturninus takes Tamora as his wife and makes her the Empress of Rome. ... According to King Lear, she is his favorite daughter; one whom he intended "to set my rest/On her kind nursery" (1.1.123-4). Lear theorizes Cordelia as his daughter and arrogantly seeks to set her up as "his mother during his second childhood." King Lear blocks out the role(s) Cordelia plays in his world because he sees her as his daughter and caregiver; as ea...

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Like most things in life there is a limit, a limited time of when we can resolve this problem and a limited time of how much our spirit can handle before we break down for good. When King Lear and Cordelia were sent to prison it was not to their knowledge that this would be the last time that the two would be together. ... Cordelia was murdered by one of the guards sent by Edmund; Lear after the murder of his daughter killed the guard. King Lear brings the corpse of his youngest daughter out and exclaims thoughts of grief and horrible guilt. He then dies of a broken heart because of the loss o...

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The youngest daughter in her family, she inherited much of her father's landowning and farming estate when he died. ... It is surmised by scholars that Shakespeare attended the free grammar school in Stratford, which at the time had a reputation to rival Eton. ... William Shakespeare wrote his will in 1611, bequeathing his properties to his daughter Susanna who married in Dr. ... To his surviving daughter Judith, he left 300 pounds, and to his wife Anne left "my second best bed." ... During Shakespeare's time after a graveyard is full they would dig up a corpse and burn the bone...

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One of these plays "King Lear" tells the story of a King with 3 daughters and an Earl with 2 sons 1 legitimate and 1 illegitimate. ... This is because the play is set in pre-Christian Britain and during this time in history people believed that the gods controlled everything including peoples fortunes. ... We meet Edmund for the first time he is listening to a conversation Kent and Gloucester are having about the problems Lear will have splitting his land between his 3 Daughters. ... In the next scene we see Edmunds first soliloquy in this soliloquy he shares this f...

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Goneril rejects her father and for the first time Lear is beginning to see that she does not love him. At this point he still clings to the status of his kingship, even though he has relinquished power to the daughters. ... A key phrase in this scene is when Gloucester says "'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind" (1601). ... He is ranting about his daughters who have rejected him, turning him out into the storm. ... At any rate, he is fixated on something to do with Cordelia that he can see and he seems to take considerable interest in it, as if he is seeing somethin...

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Proposing a test of his daughters' adoration, King Lear asks them each to describe how much they truly love him. ... Goneril, Lear's eldest daughter, is the first female character to speak in the play. ... In time, however, her true character becomes apparent, and could not be in further opposition from her response. ... Regan, the King's middle daughter, proves to be the most fierce and brutish of all Shakespeare's female characters. ... Because of this honest and pure daughter, Lear realizes his past mistakes. ...

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This all has a lot to do with the common belief of the Elizabethan time, that all Monarchs attained "divine right" and were connected to nature and to God somehow. ... It is also ironic how the storm hits simultaneously with Lear storming off after his daughter's strip him of his retinue of 100 knights and, in many ways, of his power as King. ... Scene six purely looks at an old King searching for a valid reason that his daughters, whom he loved, would turn on him with such cruelty. His actions are based on a strong sense of grief and emotional pain, whereas that of his daughters in sc...

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Together, they had three children, two daughters and a son. ... Together they had a daughter, Elizabeth, who was also Shakespeare's first grandchild. ... During the time of Shakespeare, we are still not sure what happened within seven years after the birth of his final children. ... In 1593, all theatres were closed due to the plague, but during that time, Shakespeare created two powerful poems called Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. ... Since Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son died, he left most of his possessions to his daughters. ...

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Williams Shakespeare's "The Tempest,"" is the story of Prospero and his daughter Miranda. Prospero is betrayed by his brother and he is forced onto a ship to die with his daughter. ... This illustrates Prospero's paternal and loving side to his daughter. ... Some of the many examples of this are "abysm of time "(Act 1, Scene 2, Line 50) and also just simple phrases like "thou hadst " and "piece of virtue"" which was used to describe Miranda's mother. ... He decides that it is time for him to teach Miranda about her past. ...

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Lear thinks that he does the right thing by banishing Kent and getting rid of his hard-hearted and unthankful daughter, but " Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides-. After he splits his wealth among his insincere daughters, Lear is not treated well by his daughters and the whole retinue. ... Lear realizes the truth about his daughters. ... Being honest, she is considered a former daughter by her father. ... He accompanies him when his daughters lock him out of the castle. ...

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By allowing his daughters and their husbands to rule the kingdom, the natural order of things was disturbed. ... Cordelia, the youngest daughter, states that she loves her father "according to her bond" (p.4). ... He casts out his daughter in an unfatherly fashion, yet is gravely upset by the ingratitude of his other two daughters, Goneril and Reagan. ... Thus, he puts his relationship with his daughters in jeopardy which results in a constant source of grief for King Lear. ... He does not have an easy time when dealing with his brother, Edmund. ...

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This moral blindness condemns his relationship with his most beloved daughter Cordelia, at the start of the play. ... On disowning Cordelia, he utters, "We have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again". Lear shows himself to be a vindictive man in pride, as in a few sentences he unravels all his love for his most beloved daughter, publicly and absolutely. ... Cordelia has good insight, and understanding her sisters for truly what they are, she knows what they are capable of and says, "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides". ... He discovers that Cord...

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In order to share the kingdoms, he command his daughters to say how much they love him and promise to give the greatest part to that daughter. The two older daughters, Gonerill and Regan were wicked. ... However, Lear's youngest and the favorite daughter response: "Nothing, my lord". ... In the storm, Lear wanders around talking none sense to the storm and came back to the topic about his two unfaithful daughters as "Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters. ... It show that Lear mind his not normal, he was shock from the betrayal from his daughters. ...

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After seeing Bianca for the first time, Lucentio is already telling Tranio, "Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio,/ If I achieve not this young modest girl- (I.i.147-148). ... Some even believe that the men of this time cast themselves in their own plays as a woman. ... Katherine is definitely not the favorite of Baptista's two daughters and she knows this. ... Katherine was considered to be "a shrewd, ill-favored wife- (I.ii.55)and she was definitely not what the men were looking for at the time. ... "Rebellious women- were a concern for Englishmen during the time that Shakespe...

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The sub-plot, of Gloucester and his sons and the main plot of King Lear and his daughters, enriched the play by comparing and contrasting the two families. ... Lear expects to live with them, along with his servants, but the daughters steadily reduce the number of servants he is allowed to nothing. ... When he wakes from his unconscious state, he finds himself with his loving daughter, Cordelia, although he does not recognize her. ... Here in the sands thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified of murderous lechers; and in the mature time with this ungracious paper strike the sight of the...

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When Lear decides to abdicate his throne to his three daughters, he asks them to tell him how much they love him. ... Following this, Lear banishes Kent, his most loyal servant, and his youngest and previously most loved daughter Cordelia. Lear's only condition to the division of his country is that he maintain the title of King and be allowed one hundred knights that travel with him from his other two daughter's houses, one month at a time. ... When he is cast out of his own kingdom, Lear becomes caught in a storm and begins to lose his sanity because he cannot bare the treatment by...

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