This week in AP Lit, we've been watching our perspective Shakspear plays. I have been watching King Lear. In this play, pretty much everything happens because on man decides that his life is not enough for him. This man, Edmund, goes power crazy and is determined to wipe out everyone and every thing that stand between him and his kingdom. During this struggle for power, he dies, his father dies, and all of Lear's daughters dies. This theme of power driving men mad in Shakespear's plays is a reoccuring thing. Power so easily goes to one's head, and it is indeed a fascinating topic. But this power that makes men and women giddy and weak in the knees is always the cause of their ultimate demise. I liked watching this play much more than I did listening to them being read. I feel like watching it allowed me to be able to better feel what the charcater's were feeling with the actor's given inflections. King Lear is an interesting drama, but also hard to understand. It was a little hard to determine what the motives were for these characters, but most everything was discovered in the end. Overall, I really enjoyed this drama. I'm interested in seeing what my group will be able to come up with for our project.
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