King Lear & A Thousand Acres:

The Storms That Loom Within Our Lives

By
D.Dadds

World Literature
English 206
May 2, 2004

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Thesis Statement:

The similarities that have been revealed in King Lear and A Thousand Acres are havoc, turmoil and dysfunction that so many families have been plagued with for centuries.


There have been many movies made in the last century that have remarkable similarities to movies and plays made decades ago. This is true with the movie A Thousand Acres. A Thousand Acres is a modern day adaptation of William Shakespeare's play King Lear. Originally, A Thousand Acres was released as a novel written by Jane Smiley; a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Later the novel was written into a movie by Laura Jones. The similarities and differences in both of these works are ironically unique; they both portray the havoc, the turmoil and the dysfunction that so many families have been plagued with for......

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Title: King Lear
Approximate Word Count: 1511
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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