THE 22ND CENTURY KING LEAR
King Lear
The 22nd century’s King Lear
What happened in King Lear, the play, isn’t much a new scenario today and I am not at all surprised of what his daughter’s Goneril and Regan did to him. Though there’s so much to learn from the tragic play, things isn’t changing much in this world today as more and more sins were being committed, so don’t blame Shakespeare for writing such a tragic play centuries ago. Now we are hearing news such as the daughter is slaughtered by the father and vice-versa, the son stabbing his mother, and guess what if it happened in Lear’s noble and royal family, it will as well happen in our very own royal or ‘peasant’ families. But of course, most fathers and mothers will fall for flattery of their most favourite daughter or son, whereby hate the child who don’t flatter them. I just don’t understand why parents would believe something said by one child about another child without investigating, and by the end of the day, that child and the parent would turn against the weaker child, well the child who was just being herself and not wanting to portray a false identity. In King Lear, Lear fell for the fake-loving words of Regan and Goneril, and chased Cordelia, Gloucester fell for Edmunds deceits and forgery. The parents in today society is not much the different, most of them are blind enough to see the hidden truth. Some of them refused to see when their ego stands strong within their minds.
The 22nd century’s King Lear
What happened in King Lear, the play, isn’t much a new scenario today and I am not at all surprised of what his daughter’s Goneril and Regan did to him. Though there’s so much to learn from the tragic play, things isn’t changing much in this world today as more and more sins were being committed, so don’t blame Shakespeare for writing such a tragic play centuries ago. Now we are hearing news such as the daughter is slaughtered by the father and vice-versa, the son stabbing his mother, and guess what if it happened in Lear’s noble and royal family, it will as well happen in our very own royal or ‘peasant’ families. But of course, most fathers and mothers will fall for flattery of their most favourite daughter or son, whereby hate the child who don’t flatter them. I just don’t understand why parents would believe something said by one child about another child without investigating, and by the end of the day, that child and the parent would turn against the weaker child, well the child who was just being herself and not wanting to portray a false identity. In King Lear, Lear fell for the fake-loving words of Regan and Goneril, and chased Cordelia, Gloucester fell for Edmunds deceits and forgery. The parents in today society is not much the different, most of them are blind enough to see the hidden truth. Some of them refused to see when their ego stands strong within their minds.
posted by Keavy-krrish | 7:08 AM
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it has been a while ... wow, looking back, it is amazing!
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