Need Help with King Lear Assessment (1 Viewer)

[jamesy_1988]

Hello,
I have an assessmet task due on King Lear on thursday. Can all you really nice people who are good at english out there please help.

Any way the question is "Shakespeare has the capacity to remain our contemporary" Focus on two scenes form "ling Lear" that you have found particularly involving and consider the different ways they might be presented to achieve partiular effect.

Elements that you might consider:-
1. why did you select a particular scene and what do you consider is significant about it in relation to the context, characters of the play?
2. You may list the decisisions you had to make and other factors that influenced you.
3. What audience did you intend to view the play and why?.....Contemporary, Western os Asian or other.
4. How did these choices affect the scene choice.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!

Jamesy

 

[classics_chic]

I won't write about the form here but here's how I'd answer that question:

Why does Shakespeare have the capacity to remain our contemporary? Because his works contain values that are still important to us today. What values? There are plenty of them: loyalty (Kent), family values (Lear vs. Cordelia), honesty (Cordelia), and plenty more. Hope this has been useful.

Good luck!