King Lear & Things Fall Apart
The focus of change
The novel, Things Fall Apart, and the play, King Lear, show situations of
great personal change. (Okonkwo and Nwoye, for example, from the
novel, and, in the play, Lear, Cordelia, Regan, Gonerll, Edmund, Edgar
and Gloucester]. At the novel's end, society has drastically changed,
whereas in the play society is largely the same as at the beginning of the
work.
in an essay of about 1,000 - 1,200 words. explain how forces of societal
change are accented or diminished by these works’ attention to
personal situations. How is the comfort or discomfort of characters
related to or separated from societal conditions? Which elements of the
works point to or away from those societal conditions being considered
as problems? How is the level of drama in these works connected to
societal issues and to personal ones? Cite precisely from the texts in
supporting your points.