I find it interesting that we are constantly analyzing the people in Shakespeare plays without knowing a lot about him. As it was brought up in class it is hard to tell if Shakespeare’s plays reflect his life in any way because we simply just don’t know his background. I found myself wondering if maybe something happened with Shakespeare and his mother that their really aren’t any mother figures in his plays. With Hamlet being the exception and correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t Hamlet have some mommy issues? Maybe if Lear had a wife throughout the play he could identify true love and realize that Cordellia is the only daughter that truly cares for him. Also if he had a wife the problem of his pride getting of the best of him wouldn’t have been their, and than he could have fixed things with his daughters.

The other thing that I would like to touch on is in Ran I liked how the breaking of the sticks foreshadowed what was to come. The son breaks the sticks to show that things can be broken and his father’s choice wasn’t necessarily the best. I also found myself getting a little upset in the end. I was hoping the son and father would get to reconcile, but of course anything related to Shakespeare is not going to have the sappy,happy ending.