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PEL Presents (sub)Text: Filial Ingratitude in in Shakespeare’s "King Lear"

PEL Presents (sub)Text: Filial Ingratitude in in Shakespeare’s "King Lear"

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Do we owe parents our gratitude for our upbringing? What if they haven’t done such a great job? And anyway, perhaps we inevitably resent all the forces that have shaped the characters that confine and limit us. If so, the quest for filial gratitude is ultimately hopeless. It could even be a kind of madness: a foolish attempt to transcend the same formative forces that we resent in our parents, to be “unaccommodated,” free of the “plague of custom.” Wes and Erin discuss William Shakespeare’s King Lear.

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