Antitheses The play King Lear and the novel A Thousand Acres can be compared and contrasted in many ways. For example, each work’s plot involves a struggle over land. Both also deal with the ousting of a father figure. Another comparable element in each work is the illegitimate courting of women by a newly arrived, enigmatic son. In King Lear the son is Edmund, a bastard of the Earl of Gloucester, a son who, …showed first 75 words of 2098 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2098 total…out. One man seduces the women of the story to gain, but the other man is simply interested in physical desires. One man dies and one man leaves. The men are similar in some of the situations each man faces, but are more profoundly different in their journey to those situations and their responses to those situations. These men correspond in certain situations, but differ, simply put, in all other aspects of their respective lives.