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We learned that everyone suffers and they attempt to escape it.

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King Lear is a book about corrupted family dynamics and how power can destroy families.

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We learned King Lear is a dramatic and cruel story with many tragedies throughout the book.

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Shakespeare uses different sentence structures and words than we do today.

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Shakespeare used poetic compressions, omissions, and wordplay.

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first reading - there was a lot of suffering, and only death let them escape it.

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King Lear is a hard tragedy that won’t really offer the audience a break

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It is easy to read Shakespeare if you know a romance language due to the sentence structure.

Many of the words used have different meanings today.

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This story is a tragedy and is still popular today because of the language it showcases.

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Second reading - Shakespeare rearranges words to get the emphasis and rhythm that he wants.

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We learned that Shakespeare uses unique and confusing sentence structure, and may be difficult to understand through modern English

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We learned that Lear had envisioned a world that old men would continue to be respected even after giving away their money and their power.

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Shakespeares work, though some of the words hold different meaning now, is timeless.

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many words have different meanings today then when it was written

Many things were influenced by the monarchy

Meanings of sentences can be unclear

OMITS words in sentences that are required in English

Uses personifications, puns, metaphors, and sayings though the wise fool

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Shakespeare uses words that no longer have the same meaning, which can confuse the reader.

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Shakespeare uses words that are similar to English words and uses interesting sentence formatting.