If words doesn’t hurt than why do they cause intensive pain? In Titus Andronicus and King Lear, words are seemingly lessened to nothing and bodies are degraded to unhappiness. In both plays, Shakespeare lessens language and bodies to their deepest levels. Characters fail to reach their full potential of their self as defined by social or domestic expectations unexpectedly due to the destruction forced on them by both their society and of their family. In Act I of Titus Andronicus, Lavinia is praised
Shakespeare's King Lear, the novel A Thousand Acres becomes a very relatable story for many. With common themes of trust, family, loyalty, and compassion the reader can easily find ways to connect to the people within this novel. By looking at important aspects of the making of this book such as, the authors biography, plot genre and literary elements we can find how the main themes tie the whole story together. In the end author Smiley is trying to show how family can be torn apart when women speak
of social movements”, since a collective of people recognize themselves as individuals, as well as the shared history of their generation, in literature (39). This is due to the fact that “we become acquainted with the unfamiliar, are drawn to see things from different angles, glimpse aspects of ourselves in distant lives” (43) and experience a “sense of illumination, a moment of self-reckoning triggered by an aesthetic encounter” (35). This aesthetic encounter can naturally occur while reading literature