This week in AP Lit class, we watched the play King Lear, and it was very interesting. Shakespeare always keeps it exciting and sad with all of the crazy struggles that go on in his pieces. King Lear was interesting to watch because it showed the struggle for power and how far some people will go for it. That was interesting to me because it pertained well to my SSR project for this trimester. This trimester, my SSR project has the theme of success and how far some people go to achieve when perhaps they don't realize what they lose in that race, and how much it can affect the rest of their life. You may be rich, but if nobody loves you for anything other than your money, than does it really matter? Are you really "rich"? It would seem that you are rather poor. I think there's a balance between success and people. There are always going to be those friends that aren't going to be by your side when you start to get successful, or they head the other direction. The important thing is to hold on to the friends that are true friends and want you to be successful.
The story of King Lear is really just quite sickening. The King starts this love game between his three daughters; whoever can say they love him the most can inherit his fortune. The two older daughters are super greedy and try really hard to best one another. The third daughter is above this, and finds it stupid. She is then banished by the King. The third and youngest daughter is probably the only pure and good character. To me, the saddest part of the play is when you figure out that the youngest daughter dies because she is the only good character besides perhaps Edgar or Gloucester. The story reflects on this greed between sisters, and a character named Edmond's attempts to be a player and manipulate both of them for their money. Edmond is very diabolical in his plans and his plans result in many people, including his father, being killed because of it.