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King Lear & A kB countryThe Storms That Loom Within Our Lives                                                        Dadds 1                                                                           Thesis Statement The similarities that shake been revealed in King Lear and A molar concentration Acres are havoc, fermentation and dysfunction that so slightly families have been plagued with for centuries.          There have been many a(prenominal) movies make in the last century that have remarkable similarities to movies and coquets made decades ago. This is true with the movie A Thousand Acres. A Thousand Acres is a modern day adaptation of William Shakespeares play King Lear. Originally, A Thousand Acres was released as a novel written by Jane Smiley a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Later the novel was written into a movie by Laura Jones. The similarities and differences in twain of these works are ironically unique they both portray the havoc, the turmoil and the dysfunction that so many families have been plagued with for centuries. The perplexity and bewilderment that was revealed in King Lear has also been revive in the Cook family in A Thousand Acres. The tempestuous office between a parent and a child is different past the turbulent situations between sisters. The turbulence between the immediate family members in both of the works is parallel. For example, the dictionary gives several d efinitions for a thrust. The definitions that apply are, a storm is "(1) any strong disturbance, (2) strong assail, (3) rage, and (4) a rush or attack violently" (Websters 277). Metaphorically speaking, it is as if there are storms fermenting with the daughters and the fathers of these families. Although, some of the characters in the movie                                                                                                          Dadds 2are different from the way Shakespeare portrayed his characters in King Lear centuries ago, the reader still re ceives the same message from the baloney line.      In comparison to A Thousand Acres, Shakespeares characters are often observably good or evil (Levin). To clarify this purpose, the King in the play is measured as royal line. The movie portrays the father Larry, admired by many, and the towns great deal see him as a Saint, also a form of royalty (Smiley). Although the movie depicts a certain good quality in Larry, in relation to his friends, two of his daughters know differently. In the movie A Thousand Acres Larry has three daughters Ginny, Rose and Caroline. The two oldest daughters do not encounter him the same way his youngest daughter does. It is quite obvious through the writers point of view that he favors the youngest, Caroline.