Introduction intergenerational Debts, Guilt, and Shame in

CONTENT

INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………….2

1.Intergenerational Debts, Guilt, and Shame in King Lear……………………………4

1.1. King Lear in America………………………………………………………...10

1.2. Marriage, Love, and Sacrifice in Ladder of Years and King Lear…………...16

2. Sisterhood, Shame, and Redemption in Cat’s Eye and King Lear……………..20

2.1. The Shakespearean Family Pattern in Toronto………………………………25

2.2. Before, During, and After Elaine’s Fall………………………………………32

3.Conclusion………………………………………………………………………35 3.1.The analaysis of main themes…………………………………………………35

3.2. BIBLIOGRAPHY……………………………………………………………38

INTRODUCTION

The aims of this course work are to learn deeply and to understand several points of the poem Venus and Adonis which is written by William Shakespeare.The actuality of this work caused by several important points. We seem to say that Shakespeare always remains actual for us because his works, even written three centuries ago his immortal poems, tragedies , chronicles and comedies tell about the modern things and phenomena which are happen to be in our lives,such as humans’ qualities, the problems of war and peace, love, revenge and etc. If we say about the new information used with in our we may note that the work studies the problem from the modern position and analyzes the modern trends appeared in this subjectfor the last ten years .Mainly, newality is concluded in a wide collocting of internet materials dealing with the poem. The practical significance of the work can be concluded in the following items;

a) The work could serve as a good source of materials for additional reading bystudents at schools ,collages and lyceums.

b)The problem of difficult reading of Shacespeare’s language could be

a) littele biteasier to understand since our course work includes the chapter concerning the question mentioned.

c) Those who would like to possess a perfect knowledge of English will find our work useful and practical.

d) Our qualification work is our little gift to memory of the outstanding English writer.

Having said about the scholars who dealt with the same theme earlier we may notion T. Shcepkina-Kupernik and A.Lozinsky, who made a great input to the popularization of the great English in our country, A.Anikst, who prepared the first “Russian Follio” of Shakespeare’s works, J.Coleridge, Dr.Jonson, Alfred Bates and many others. The newality of the work is concluded in including the modern interpretations of the play.The general structure of our course work looks as follows:The work is composed onto three major parts: introduction, main part and conclusion. Each part has its subdivision onto the specific thematically items. There are three points in the introductory part: the first item tells about the general characteristics of the work, the second paragraph gives us some words about the author of the play and the history of his work Venus and Adonis.The main part of our course work consists of two main chapters ,which in their turn are subdivided into several thematically paragraphs.The first chapter of the main part discusses the genres of the play,its plot and main idea. Here we also gave the particular attention to the description and further analysis of the most meaningful scenes in each act of the play.The second chapter of main part discusses the methods of the play. The second chapter of the main part observes the characters of their play and their interrelations in respect to the society, mental and age status. In conclusion to our work we gave our ideas got in the result of our investigation and appreciated the future perspectives of the latter. At the very end of our qualification work we supplied our work with the bibliography list and the internet materials.