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Deception and Unconditional Love in King Lear
Ten years ago, as a little girl, fairy tale was the most favourite kind of my reading. The happy ending in every fairy tale made me enjoyable very much. Sometimes, I got some meaningful lessons for myself from the story I had read. To some extent, like a fairy tale, King Lear by William Shakespeare also brings back to me the memories of those days, that is overwhelmed by the story about King and princesses. However, it is obviously not a fairy tale because of its tragic ending and its profound philosophies of life. Love in family bond is one of the meaningful themes in King Lear that I am interested in most of all.
To begin with, King Lear's trust in the deception of love of his two first daughters -Goneril and Regan - tragically brings him to his cruel fate at the end of the play...
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