Comparing Logan And King Lear

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A four-hundred-year-old play and a modern comic book movie may seem to have little in common on the surface, but the Marvel film Logan and Shakespeare’s tragic play King Lear have a curious similarity. The overtly feminized cursing in King Lear and symbolic play on words in Logan give light to an ever-present cultural issue, the devaluation of women by men in a patriarchal society. Both male protagonists share a staggering similarity as cruel and callous parents but are relatively free from any judgment of their behavior. In fact, the film and play both have tremendously high body counts due entirely to the hubris of the male lead characters, and yet they are still the hero's; albeit tragic ones. This paper will outline, through the depictions

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