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Friday, October 2, 2009

The Fool

This week in our reading, (Act 3 scenes 5-7) we will see one of our favorite characters for the last time. This is the fool. In Shakespeare's writing, he does not explain what happened to him. In various versions there are different explanations. In the show on PBS version that you can click to over on the right, there is a very sad scene that is added to the play--it is not in the original Shakespeare play.
But is it what really happened???
What do you think?

Put your thinking caps on and tell us what you think REALLY happened to the FOOL....
Every different entry you place you can pull one thing from the candy jar in class next week.

8 comments:

  1. I think what REALLY happened, was the fool ran away to join the circus :D

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  2. what if, he had a stroke, and died!!! :(

    or he fell off a cliff,

    What if a murderer stabbed him in the back because he was crazy?

    maybe his brain failed him

    or Lear beat him to death

    maybe he got put into the gallows

    or he sang to death

    or he fell off a horse then another horse trampled him

    or he died of a cold from the storm...I got alot more of these!

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  3. Maybe he just died of old age, or was ran over by a wagon, or heart failure, or burned, or maybe he ran away because he didn't like palace life

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  4. Maybe he ran off to LIVE WITH THE MONKEYS! :)

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  5. maybe he sung to death!

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  6. Or danced to death, or maybe he fell off the spires from the castle

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  7. maybe he killed himself.
    or Lear killed him.
    or Kent killed him.
    or he fell in love.
    or he got struck by lightning.
    or he was cursing the storm.
    or he ran away.
    or he got on a boat and drowned.
    or he went to serve a new king.
    or he really DID get hang.
    or he want to school.
    or his coxcomb got stolen.
    or the law killed him.
    or he was poisoned.

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