Scribd
Upload
70 views2 pages

Book Report

King Lear is a tragic Shakespearean tale about an aging king named Lear. The story follows Lear as he divides his kingdom between his two deceitful daughters, Goneril and Regan, while disowning his honest daughter Cordelia. Lear gradually loses his grip on his kingdom and his mind as his deceitful daughters betray and criticize him. He is driven mad with grief over his mistreatment of Cordelia. The play depicts the mental and physical deterioration of Lear, and ends with the deaths of both Cordelia and Lear himself.

Uploaded by

Christin Me Locsin
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
70 views2 pages

Book Report

King Lear is a tragic Shakespearean tale about an aging king named Lear. The story follows Lear as he divides his kingdom between his two deceitful daughters, Goneril and Regan, while disowning his honest daughter Cordelia. Lear gradually loses his grip on his kingdom and his mind as his deceitful daughters betray and criticize him. He is driven mad with grief over his mistreatment of Cordelia. The play depicts the mental and physical deterioration of Lear, and ends with the deaths of both Cordelia and Lear himself.

Uploaded by

Christin Me Locsin
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY

Pampanga Campus
BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
School Year 2022-2023

BOOK REPORT IN ENGLISH


NAME: Delos Santos Jiansen, C
GRADE & SECTION: 8-Love
TEACHER: Mr. Jann Audry S. Manalese

King Lear
(TITLE OF THE BOOK)
William Shakespeare
(AUTHOR)

INTRODUCTION & SUMMARY


King Lear is a tragic tale of a King named Lear. with some added aspects of religion
and Lear he gets driven to madness by one tragedy after another. the story starts out in a
ceremony that would carry out to be the mistake Lear did in which he disowned her
daughter Cordelia from what she said in which Lear got mad and surprised everyone as he
Separated the kingdom as he gave his two daughters half of the kingdom even though the
people thought Cordelia will get most of the kingdom then The Earl Of Kent questions this
decision and got banished by Lear Then the story cuts into Edmund wanting to become the
Earl frames his brother that’s The legitimate son into thinking That he has a plan to kill his
father after that Edgar flees and disguises himself Next Lear’s daughter gets Bothered in the
kingdom and Criticized Lear then Kent returns to king Lear and gains himself a position to
serve him again and accompanied Lear As he got mad and went to live with Goneril Act III
Lear being sad about disowning Cordelia and regretting his decision he goes wild and runs
around with the fool till Gloucester stops him and made him live in his house temporarily
for shelter meanwhile Cordelia has come with her french army to fight her sisters then
Edmund persuades A Servant to kill his father Gloucester But the servant only blinded him
act IV This Is where Edgar That hid comes back where Lear found him Next they found his
father Gloucester blind and led him to a beach reunited with his son he dies happy and
alone and Kent has found Lear and went to Cordelia Act V The final Act The Army of Cordelia
lost to the the power of Edmunds army and captures Cordelia Meanwhile her sister Goneril
poisoned Regan because she liked Edmund now Edgar Asked Edmund to have a duel
Edmund lost and died Confessing what he has done then Goneril kills herself as Edmund has
died meanwhile Cordelia was found dead Hanged… After the war The kingdom was back to
king Lear and in the end King Lear died due to grief of his daughters death and everything
that happened The end.

CHARACTERS & THEIR CHARACTERIZATIONS


•King Lear- The King of Britain
•Cordelia- The Youngest Son of king Lear also the daughter that loved Lear the most
•Regan- The Middle Daughter
 •Goneril- Oldest daughter of Lear Smart
 Earl Of Gloucester – Resident of king Lears kingdom that is powerful
 King of France- Cordelias Husband
 Earl Of Kent- The Servant Of lear
 Edmund – The Villain in the story that Helped drove Lear to madness illegitimate son
of the Earl of Gloucester
 Edgar Legitimate son of Earl of Gloucester
 The Fool- Lears Companion
SETTING, THEME & LESSON
The Setting Starts at a mythological kingdom eventually moving from kingdom to
kingdom while the theme is about A Tragic Tale about a king driven To madness
The lesson I learned about this that Life is not easy and it should not be taken as a joke
sometimes don’t carry too much burdens as You may grow crazy about it

“Unpredictable things may happen but don’t worry and don’t carry the burden too much.”
(Take away quotation/ message from the story)

Date submitted

You might also like