Connection: King Lear and Family Value

In the Shakespearean play King Lear occurs a bit of a role reversal, as King Lear loses his land and his wealth to his 'ungrateful' daughters. Though the story of King Lear was written hundreds of years ago, it is closely comparable to modern day familial relationships. Many claim that the new generations of children are showing much less respect to their parents and are becoming 'spoiled'.

Back in the 1800s/1900s, it was not uncommon for a child to be beaten for simply questioning his/her parents authority. Nowadays, children talk back to their parents as if they were simply another one of their friends. I'm not completely disagreeing with this, as this means that the child-parent barrier is being shredded down. But still, morals become corrupted as children quickly realize they do not have to watch their words.

Another direct example of how family value relates to King Lear is that in this century parents kick their parents into senior homes, as they believe that their parents are too big of a burden on themselves. They don't even consider the fact that their parents had to take care of them for years, throughout their whole childhood, and they might've once thought the same thing, that their children were a burden.

As time goes on, culture changes, and our changing culture and the crumbling formality between children and adults greatly resemble King Lear's conflicting situation.