The Importance of the Plot in Shakespeare’s Works

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Children these days are always told that they have their own talents; they just have to search for them. However some talents people aren’t born with, they are learned. When it comes to writing skills, there are three important qualities. Content, characters, and plot development. Due to creativity, content is fairly easy to come by. Once a person has decided what they’re going to write, characters are just a matter of imagination. Yet, the development of the plot is a hard process. The way in which the plot is developed shows the intent of the writer. Kate Mosse said it best: “A story is just the stuff that happened; plot is the intrigue of how and why. Yet in writing courses and workbooks, plot is often the poor relation of those apparently superior skills of characterisation, dialogue and style.” (Mosse, 2011) A better writer finds ways to spice up the plot. One of the best literary artists, William Shakespeare, found ways to have fun with the plots of various pieces. His works include King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing in which the plots contrast in their set-up, but they compare in the their intensity.
First of all, we must understand the plot development of William Shakespeare’s book King Lear. David Walsh describes this text as: "King Lear is among the most complex and contradictory of Shakespeare’s works." (Walsh, 2002) This book is about a man, King Lear, who is about to give up his throne to one of his three daughters. He asks each of them to confess their love for him. Two of them, Goneril and Reagan, lie and suck up to him. Whereas, his only loyal daughter, Cordelia, refuses to sink to their level. This causes King Lear to get very angry and expel his daughter from the kingdom. Later, another man, Gloucester,...

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