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A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley is the modern King Lear by Shakespeare. ...
A classical tragedy (King Lear), which concerns itself with the fall of a man in high place to a lower position through some flaw or weakness, in modern tragedy (A Thousand Acres) we see how the pressures of farm life or the world change the average man into a shadow of what he used to be. ... Larry Cook is our King Lear, wrapped by his familys goal to farm economically and aggressively, by his emotional distance from his ancestors and his daughters, and by his ignorance to see himself as a guilty man of the molestation of his daughters. ... A Thousand Acres, the one recurring theme which stands out is Smileys criticism of a masculine-dominated culture. ... In A Thousand Acres, Smiley tries to capture the tensions of real everyday living in her representation of a dysfunctional rural family sunk in a patriarchal tradition. ...
In King Lear the person who went through the transformation in the play was Cordelia, because at the beginning she makes a stance against her father transgressing her personal boundaries through his definition of love and in the end she capitulates.
Approximate Word count = 977
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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