King Lear And A Thousand Acres Comparison

Comparing A Thousand Acres and King Lear A Thousand Acres is a novel, which is written by American author Jane Smiley in 1991, won several rewarding awards, like the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991. The novel has some connections with king Lear -- a tragedy which is written by Shakespeare. A Thousand is a classic tragedy, which is a reworking of the King Lear plots, represents a modernized interpretation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. It means that it is common to figure out some similarities and differentiates between these two novels. A number of similarities and parallels, including plot details and character development, are easy to be figured out between these two novels. In this paragraph, `we are mainly focus on talking about parallels between characters in A Thousand

In A Thousand Acres, Larry, the host of the farm family, the farther, has plans to decide to retire from farming and divide land among daughters. Similarly, in King Lear, Lear considers to get retired from power and divide his right of kingdom among daughters. “Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there.—Know that we have divided In three our kingdom, and ’tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths while we Unburdened crawl toward death.—Our son of Cornwall,” (Shakespeare, 1.1.36). Moreover, in these two novels, domestic conflicts in families occur and relationships among siblings are strained. In A Thousand Acres, family members fight for each other in order to obtain their own benefits - inheritances. Based on those argues and fights, the relationship among siblings has been destroyed. Parallel, in King Lear, the author set plots as that family members argue about ownership of right of the