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Posted by: uh...ok
I need a good controversial topic for Shakespeare's play, King Lear up to and including Act 3 Scene 4.
I seriously can't think of ANYTHING to write about... and it's due tomorrow. 
-uh...ok
Posted by: Gunslinger
http://www.sparknotes.com
Posted by: Gunslinger
If you had asked about Hamlet or Macbeth or Romeo and Juliet or Julius Caesar or The Taming of the Shrew I would have been able to help you out nicely.
Bummer.
Posted by: uh...ok
LOL... I actually do the reading.
I just can't think of a good topic. 
-uh...ok
Posted by: Kdr Kane
If Cordelia really loved her father in the first place, she should have given him what he asked of her in the first place. She should have really known that he needed her affirmation.
Sorry, if this doesn't fit. I just now read the synopsis.
Posted by: uh...ok
Hehe it doesn't Kane, but that's ok. Thanks for trying.
I'm looking into the Lear messageboard for ideas.
-uh...ok
Posted by: Canis Lupus
King Lear ... hehehe ... time to buy some Cliff's Notes UO 
Posted by: redwench
im with gunny. i could give you a really good one for macbeth. but king lear is one of the few major plays of his that i havent read. why on earth do they have you reading lear?
Posted by: Blackknight
well you see redwench they are reading King Lear becuase they would get more out of it that way. They could act, watch, or burn King Lear but reading fits books best.
Posted by: redwench
its a play, not a book. and i meant instead of his other works. 
Posted by: uh...ok
We read Macbeth 2 years ago.
It's part of the AP English curriculum... I don't think we're running on anything that's simply by the whims of the teacher. There are certain things we need to get done in order to prepare well for the AP Exam in May... Lear might be one of them.
BTW, I like King Lear a lot better than Macbeth or some of other Shakespeare's works. I find some of the plays a bit overexcessive when it comes to plot that make me lose patience for them. One of my favorite plays of all time is Oedipus Tyrannos, which has one of the simplest and complex plots at the same time. While some of Shakespeare's plays accomplish this, many times he ends up putting things in the play that you can cut out from the plot without damaging the story. But in the case of Lear, not a single part of the play can be cut out without compromising something in the story.
I find it funny that you wonder why we're doing Lear instead of some other plays when you haven't even read it yet.
-uh...ok
P.S. BTW Laggy I DID read it, as I said before... my trouble was coming up with a good topic to write about... which I found in a mb at Sparknotes.com (thanks Gunny ).
P.P.S. I wrote the essay until 1 AM last night but my English teacher (who probably is the hardest grader I've ever had) fell short of saying it was perfect.
Posted by: redwench
nothing wrong with lear. but usually its pretty far down on the list for high schools to teach. i just find it odd unless youve already read caesar, rom&jul, macbeth, othello, hamlet, and a couple of the comedies.
and i took the english ap test. its not a test of what you read, its a test of application. youll be given things to read, which you analyze and blah blah blah. unless the ap test has drastically changed its methods, which i rather doubt, they dont specify in detail what is taught in class.
your teacher should give you previous years tests soon to look at.
Posted by: uh...ok
Well I have read Romeo&Juliet (Frosh), Macbeth (Soph), and Hamlet (summer post-Soph.
I have heard many great things about Othello, but so far I like Lear pretty well... (I saw the whole play already).
It's especially funny after having to read Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres over the summer.
-uh...ok
Posted by: TotalRecall
I've read Romeo & Juliet. I forgot most of it, but I do remember the Leonardo movie well...strange.
Posted by: uh...ok
The Leonardo one was actually an OK version for it. But Zeferelli by far has a superior version of it.
I didn't like R&J too much... the 1337 version of it rocked though... has anyone here seen it?
Check it out here, it's freakin hilarious:
http://www.hamncheez.com/~noeffort/tftl.htm
-uh...ok
Posted by: Pepsi-Man[OTS]
u know something about hamlet when i was in my last year of high school, i didnt have a 5th period but i did have a 6th so i nvr left campus instead i went to the library and read hamlet for no reason whatsoevr. kinda wierded myself out for awhile
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