Comapring Father/Daughter Relationships in King Lear and A Thousand Acr

Father/Daughter Relationships in nance Lear and A grand Acres The bond between a father and a young lady groundworks as one of the strongest emotional bonds present within many families. From the act their teensy-weensy girls emerge from the womb to the moment their young women marry, the father reigns as the head of the household, the controller, and the protector. Though this rings true for many families, sometimes Daddys little girls make all the rules. They possess the ability to acquire what they want by means of their incessant whining, crying, and batting of their eyelashes. Daddys little girls assert control over most(prenominal) situations and possess negotiating skills that rival those of the outdo Wall Street stockbrokers. Pulling at Daddys heart, Daddys little girls play their fathers like puppets. Daddy appears as the head, but everyone knows who reigns as the boss. Though a father takes on the leadership role as the male figure head of the family, the role of protector makes the father-daughter bond oddly strong. Fathers protect their little girls from all harm so they proclaim. What happens when something shatters the respect and rely within the father-daughter relationship? What happens if the father hurts the daughter or vice versa? William Shakespeares King Lear and Jane Smileys A Thousand Acres delve into the subject of father-daughter relationships. Both kit and caboodle of literature carefully examine the father-daughter theme, but, in King Lear, Lear receives the sympathy and not his sinister, evil daughters, Goneril and Regan, while in A Thousand Acres Larry shit emerges as the villain, the daughters, Ginny and Rose, emerge as the heroines. In every family resides the favorite. The favorites get eve... ...es stand as the ones that survive through the storm that rages in their lives. Although some of the heroes last die, Lear of King Lear and Ginny and Rose of A Thousand Acres establish themselves as examples of total s elf-respect. Though people disrespect them, they persevere and live their lives to the best of their abilities emerging as the only true, heroic characters. Works Cited Harbage, Alfred. King Lear An Introduction. Shakespeare The Tragedies A Collection of precise Essays. Englewood Prentice-Hall, 1964 113-22. Knight, Wilson. King Lear and the Comedy of the Grotesque. Shakespeare The Tragedies A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Prentice-Hall, 1964 123-38. Shakespeare, William. King Lear. New York Scholastic, 1970. Smiley, Jane. A Thousand Acres. Thorndike Thorndike Press, 1991.