KING LEAR: MAYBE IT'S (not) TOO LATE...

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"

This is a quote taken from the first act of "King Lear" and it's particulary meaningful because it introduces us the insane relationship between the father and the child in Shakespeare's work, and not only that.

I chose to deal with "King Lear" because I found it extremely coherent and topically with the period in which we live and because it allows me to go deep into a current issue that I think it's important to face: the belief that the new generations can correct the mistakes and reedem the world left by their fathers.

In this tragedy we have the clear example of how young people suffer because of bad decisions made by their fathers: Cordelia is forced to leave her country due to an error of judgment by Lear who is fooled by the sweet but fake words of the older sisters, and Edgardo is in danger of being killed due to too much trust the earl of Gloucester places in his illegitimate son, who we can define as one of the real villains of Shakespeare's tragedy.

I strongly believe that we can absolutely find ourselves in these issues brought to light more than four hundred years ago by Shakespeare: in particular in recent years we have had and are still absolutely suffering for mistakes made by our parents and by those before them.

I feel obliged to give a couple of particular examples that I believe everyone can see: the slow and constant destruction of our planet and all the problems that the economy has nowadays. In the years before us the Earth was exploited to exhaustion and now we find ourselves without funds, due to economic and political mistakes made by those who governed us and still govern us today, fighting a battle to save our planet to ourselves.

From an economic and financial point of view we can say that we have not yet recovered and we young people have troubles in finding job, in fact in January 2021 here in Italy the youth unemployment rate rose to almost 34 percent.

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