Antitheses: King Lear and A Thousand Acres

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…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.