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Sevda Keskin -Zeytindağ Multi Program Anatolian High School

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Sevda Keskin -Zeytindağ Multi Program Anatolian High School

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My students have studied Macbeth and prepared an infographic about it

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Check out this infographic designed by sevda keskin.

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Gokcebey Anatolian Imam Hatip High School Infographic of Much Ado About Nothing

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Gokcebey Anatolian Imam Hatip High School Infographic of Much Ado About Nothing

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Gokcebey Anatolian Imam Hatip High School Infographic of Much Ado About Nothing

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Gokcebey Anatolian Imam Hatip High School Infographic of Much Ado About Nothing

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Gokcebey Anatolian Imam Hatip High School Infographic of Much Ado About Nothing

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Gokcebey Anatolian Imam Hatip High School Infographic of Much Ado About Nothing

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Raffaella Giannelli, IIS Fortunato Bruno, Corigliano-Rossano, Italy. 

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Raffaella Giannelli, IIS Fortunato Bruno, Corigliano-Rossano, Italy. 

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Raffaella Giannelli, IIS Fortunato Bruno, Corigliano-Rossano, Italy.

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Raffaella Giannelli, IIS Fortunato Bruno, Corigliano-Rossano, Italy.

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Twelth Night plot infographic.

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Twelfth Night themes and quotes inphografic.

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Twelth night characters infographic.

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İmren Acar- Celal Aras Anatolian High School

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King Lear - IIS "Luigi Palma" Corigliano-Rossano, Italy

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King Lear - IIS "Luigi Palma" Corigliano-Rossano, Italy

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King Lear Cordelia
Goneril and Regan

Parallels between King Lear and
The Fool
Edmund

Analogy with Machiavelli

King Lear is a play written by William Shakespeare that tells the story of an aging king who decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, based on their professions of love for him. The two eldest daughters, Goneril and Regan, flatter the king and are rewarded with large portions of the kingdom, while the youngest, Cordelia, speaks honestly and is disowned.

As the play unfolds, the two eldest daughters turn against their father, while Cordelia returns with an army to restore him to the throne. However, the reunion is short-lived, as both Lear and Cordelia are killed in the ensuing battle. The play explores themes such as power, betrayal, love, and the consequences of poor judgement.

The play also explores the theme of blindness, both literally and metaphorically. King Lear himself is blind to the true nature of his daughters and their true feeling towards him. He believes in the false professions of love and doesn't see the betrayal that is coming his way. Similarly, his loyal courtier, Gloucester is also blinded by his own prejudices and trusts the wrong people.

The play also deals with the theme of nature, the natural order of things is disrupted by the actions of the characters, and the play ends with the restoration of that order, with the deaths of the main characters who were responsible for the disruption.

King Lear is considered one of Shakespeare's greatest plays and is renowned for its powerful characterization, poetic language, and exploration of complex human emotions.

King Lear is a play written by William Shakespeare that tells the story of an aging king who decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, based on their professions of love for him. The two eldest daughters, Goneril and Regan, flatter the king and are rewarded with large portions of the kingdom, while the youngest, Cordelia, speaks honestly and is disowned.

As the play unfolds, the two eldest daughters turn against their father, while Cordelia returns with an army to restore him to the throne. However, the reunion is short-lived, as both Lear and Cordelia are killed in the ensuing battle. The play explores themes such as power, betrayal, love, and the consequences of poor judgement.

The play also explores the theme of blindness, both literally and metaphorically. King Lear himself is blind to the true nature of his daughters and their true feeling towards him. He believes in the false professions of love and doesn't see the betrayal that is coming his way. Similarly, his loyal courtier, Gloucester is also blinded by his own prejudices and trusts the wrong people.

The play also deals with the theme of nature, the natural order of things is disrupted by the actions of the characters, and the play ends with the restoration of that order, with the deaths of the main characters who were responsible for the disruption.

King Lear is considered one of Shakespeare's greatest plays and is renowned for its powerful characterization, poetic language, and exploration of complex human emotions.

Lear has a short temper and loses it several times during the unfolding of the

tragedy. He loves flattery and expects his daughters to flatter him to receive their

share of the kingdom, and Cordelia's refusal to flatter him provokes his anger.

Despite these negative character traits, flaws that lead to his tragic mental fall and

then death, Lear also builds a strong loyalty in those around him: Kent, whom Lear

banishes, follows Lear across England in disguise to serve him , Gloucester risks his

life looking for the king during the storm, Cordelia forgives her father despite his

harsh treatment of her. It is possible that the people to whom Lear causes suffering

because they attribute his actions to dementia rather than a meanness.

Cordelia is the youngest of the King's three daughters. Her father offers her the opportunity to profess his love to him in exchange for a third of the land in his kingdom, she refuses and is banished for most of the play. Shakespeare's King Lear , Cordelia is briefly on stage during Act 1. Her father Lear exiles her in response to his honesty when he asks his three daughters professions of love to determine how to divide the lands of his kingdom between them . Cordelia, seeing through her sisters' feigned professions of love, refuses to do the same. Unlike her father and sisters, Cordelia is able to distinguish love from property. Her two suitors, the duke of Burgundy and the king of France, are then summoned. The Duke of Burgundy withdraws her suit after learning that she has been disinherited, but the King of France is impressed by her honesty and agrees to marry her. She leaves with him and doesn't come back.

Cordelia has always been Lear's favorite daughter. After Lear is rejected by her daughters Goneril and Regan, she goes mad. Cordelia returns at the end of the play intending to help Lear, eventually reversing the role of her daughter into that of her mother. But when she arrives, Lear is unable to recognize her due to her insane state. . However, he forgives him for banishing her. When Lear finally comes to his senses and realizes who Cordelia is, they have little time to talk and reconcile. Edmund arrives and sends them both to prison, where Cordelia is eventually hanged.

Cordelia's main characteristics are devotion, kindness, beauty and honesty, perhaps honesty to an excess. By refusing to take part in Lear's test of love at the outset of the play, Cordelia asserts herself as the repository of virtue, and the evident authenticity of her love for Lear makes clear the extent of the king's error in the play. banish her. Cordelia's reunion with Lear marks the apparent restoration of order to the realm and the triumph of love and forgiveness over hatred and rancor. This fleeting moment of family bliss makes King Lear's devastating ending all the more cruel, as Cordelia, the personification of kindness and virtue, becomes a literal sacrifice to the ruthlessness of a seemingly unjust world.

GONERIL and REGAN, are the emblem of falsehood. They represent lies, hypocrisy, they are very selfish and greedy. Initially they deceive their father with nice words to get the kingdom.
Subsequently, however, their double mask comes out, and the father was unable to imagine on his daughters, so much so that they abandoned him to an enemy and ruthless reality. Following other events, the King turns against the two daughters. Goneril threatens to leave and never to return home. Subsequently the sisters clash with each other and this will lead to tragedy; Goneril poisons Regan, who kills herself. Regan, together with his companion orders to kill the king, who sees Cordelia die in her arms. And finally the king dies of pain.

Cordelia's actions are a catalyst for much of the action in the play, her refusal to take

part in her father's "love test" results in her furious impulsive outburst in which she

disowns and banishes her otherwise impeccable daughter. Some may perceive

Cordelia as a bit stubborn for refusing to take part in her father's love test; and

vindictive to marry the king of France in retaliation, but we are told that she has

integrity from other characters in the drama and the fact that the King of France is

willing to take her without dowry speaks well of her character; he also has little

choice but to marry France. In Act 4 scene 7 When Lear is finally reunited with

Cordelia he redeems himself by fully apologizing for his actions towards him and his

subsequent death is therefore even more tragic. Cordelia's death finally hastens her

father's death first to madness and then to death. Cordelia's portrayal as a selfless,

beacon of hope makes her death more tragic for the audience and allows Lear's final

act of revenge - killing Cordelia's executioner to appear heroic adding further to her

terrible tragic fall. Shakespeare's decision to kill Cordelia has been criticized as being

so innocent, but perhaps he needed this final blow to bring about Lear's total downfall

and confuse the tragedy. All characters in the opera are treated harshly and the

consequences of their actions are punished. Cordelia; offering only hope and

goodness could, therefore, be considered the true tragedy of King Lear.
Cinderella
As I sat in my parents' car, coming home from the hawk game, I was thinking about

what I could connect King Lear. As I thought, Goneril and Reagan came to mind.

There are both pretty distinctive characters, and almost immediately I started thinking

about Cinderella's evil stepsisters. Although there is no absolute connection between

the four, there are precise parallels to be made. In both Cinderella and King Lear, the

sisters are pretty bad. They also lie to get what they want, and the other sister is left

out in the dust. Cordelia was removed from the will and Cinderella almost failed to

go to the ball. But in the end, Cinderella came out the winner. Whether it will happen

in King Lear, I'm not sure, because it's definitely not a fairy tale. It is interesting to

see how Shakespeare's characters influenced a classic fairy tale that was told over and

over again. In the evil stepsisters and in Reagan and Goneril we can see an archetype

that has been quite pervasive through the ages.

The Fool is Lear's own stand-up comedian, sure, but more interestingly, he's the only guy that Lear allows to criticize him. (Remember, when Kent lips off, Lear boots him out of the kingdom and when Lear doesn't like what Cordelia has to say, Lear disowns her altogether.). As in many of Shakespeare's plays, the Fool is actually really smart-and the only person who tells it like it is. Compare Lear's Fool, for example, to Feste in Twelfth Night - neither one of them are afraid to call their misguided masters "foolish" and they both function as characters that provide a lot of social commentary. At the same time, the Fool is more than just a funny and brutally honest guy; he's also super-loyal. Along with Kent/Caius, the Fool braves the elements (which at times consist of rain, thunder, and lightning) with his master.

But the Fool is also a big mystery: what happens to him? He disappears after Act 3, Scene 6, and nobody ever explains where he's gone. Some literary critics even speculate that the Fool and Cordelia were played by the same actor. They never appear onstage together, so some scholars hypothesized that the part was double cast, and that the Fool had to disappear when Cordelia came back into the play.

Of all of the play's villains, Edmund is the most complex and

sympathetic. He is a consummate schemer, a Machiavellian

character eager to seize any opportunity and willing to do

anything to achieve his goals. However, his ambition is interesting

insofar as it reflects not only a thirst for land and power but also a

desire for the recognition denied to him by his status as a bastard.

His serial treachery is not merely self-interested; it is a conscious

rebellion against the social order that has denied him the same

status as Gloucester's legitimate son, Edgar. "Now, gods, stand up

for bastards,

" Edmund commands, but in fact he depends not on

divine aid but on his own initiative. He is the ultimate self-made

man, and he is such a cold and capable villain that it is

entertaining to watch him work, much as the audience can

appreciate the clever wickedness of Iago in Othello. Only at the

close of the play does Edmund show a flicker of weakness.

Mortally wounded, he sees that both Goneril and Regan have died

for him, and whispers,

"Yet Edmund was beloved". After this

ambiguous statement, he seems to repent of his villainy and

admits to having ordered Cordelia's death. His peculiar change of

heart, rare among Shakespearean villains, is enough to make the

audience wonder, amid the carnage, whether Edmund's villainy

sprang not from some innate cruelty but simply from a thwarted,

misdirected desire for the familial love that he witnessed around

him.

ENGLISH

Both "The Prince" by Machiavelli and "King Lear" by William Shakespeare deal with themes of

leadership and power, and the characters of the prince and Edmund share some similarities.

Both the prince and Edmund are willing to use whatever means necessary to gain and maintain

power, even if it means resorting to violence or deceit.

Both characters are highly ambitious and driven, and are willing to make sacrifices in order to

achieve their goals.

Both the prince and Edmund are willing to betray those close to them in order to advance their own

interests.

Both characters are highly adaptable, able to adjust their strategies as circumstances change.

Both the prince and Edmund are cunning and able to outsmart their enemies.

Both characters are aware of the factions within their society and are able to manipulate them to

their advantage.

Both the prince and Edmund are willing to be ruthless in order to maintain their power.

Both characters are willing to be deceitful and manipulate others to achieve their goals.

It's important to note that "King Lear" by Shakespeare is a tragedy and the characters are not

presented as role models, also the play is a critique of the idea of absolute power and the

consequences that come with it, in contrast to the amoral perspective of Machiavelli in "The

Prince"

ITALIANO

Sia "Il Principe" di Machiavelli che "Re Lear" di William Shakespeare trattano temi di leadership e

potere, e i personaggi del principe e di Edmund condividono alcune somiglianze.

Sia il principe che Edmund sono disposti a utilizzare qualsiasi mezzo necessario per acquisire e

mantenere il potere, anche se significa ricorrere alla violenza o alla frode.

Entrambi i personaggi sono altamente ambiziosi e motivati, e sono disposti a fare sacrifici per

raggiungere i loro obiettivi.

Sia il principe che Edmund sono disposti a tradire coloro che gli sono vicini per avanzare i loro

interessi.

Entrambi i personaggi sono altamente adattabili, in grado di adattare le loro strategie in base alle

circostanze cambianti.

Sia il principe che Edmund sono astuti e in grado di sconfiggere i loro nemici.

Entrambi i personaggi sono consapevoli delle fazioni all'interno della loro società e sono in grado

di manipolarle a loro vantaggio.

Sia il principe che Edmund sono disposti a essere spietati per mantenere il potere.

Entrambi i personaggi sono disposti ad essere ingannevoli e manipolare gli altri per raggiungere i

loro obiettivi.

E' importante notare che "Re Lear" di Shakespeare è una tragedia e i personaggi non vengono

presentati come modelli, anche la pièce è una critica dell'idea di potere assoluto e delle

conseguenze che ne derivano, a differenza della prospettiva amorale di Machiavelli in Il Principe.

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Seher ERDOĞAN-Sehit Aytekin Kuru Anatolian High School-Ankara, Turkey

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Seher ERDOĞAN-Sehit Aytekin Kuru Anatolian High School-Ankara, Turkey

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Berrin ÖZTÜRK ÇAĞLI, 15 Temmuz Şehitleri KAİHL, İZMİR TÜRKİYE

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Berrin ÖZTÜRK ÇAĞLI, 15 Temmuz Şehitleri KAİHL, İZMİR TÜRKİYE

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We analysed "The Tempest" by Shakespeare and we prepared an infographic about it.

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Here is the summary infographic about The Tempest by Shakespeare.

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Eleni Ioannidou, General Lyceum of Tyrnavos, Greece. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE INFOGRAPHIC

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Eleni Ioannidou, General Lyceum of Tyrnavos, Greece. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE INFOGRAPHIC

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We read the play The Merchant of Venice and students collaborated to make an infographic on the play with the charactes, the plot, the play in numbers, the themes of the play and a quote they liked.

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We made character analyzes and summarize the plot

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We made character analyzes and summarize the plot