Wednesday, 11/9: Lear Essay

AP Lear Essay

Choose one from the three below. Be sure to respond to the prompt and not merely summarize the plot. Be sure to take a position and defend it using specific examples.

1. Trace the theme of sight and insight, blindness and vision in King Lear. Consider how this theme relates to the idea of reality and appearance.

2. Trace the theme of "nothing" in King Lear.

3. Evaluate the following statement from Lear. Take a position and defend it: "I am a man/ more sinned against than sinning" (III.ii).

Single space.
Write in pen.
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