This document summarizes key life lessons that can be learned from William Shakespeare's play King Lear and Margaret Laurence's novel The Stone Angel. Some of the lessons discussed are the importance of unconditional family love, forgiving oneself and others, and allowing oneself to grow throughout life's stages. A works cited page lists the various sources referenced in the document.

1. Life Lessons Featuring King Lear , playwright William Shakespeare, and The Stone Angel , author Margaret Laurence M. Stephanie Macedo Mrs. Kumara ENG 4U1 May 20 th , 2009.

2. Young people learn valuable lessons from the stories of Lear and Hagar.

3. Be with those who are blind patient

4. “ Some people will tell you that the old live in the past — that’s non-sense” (Laurence 5).

5. “… if you have poison for me…” (4:7:182)

6. those who can not forgive themselves. Forgive

7. “ No cause, no cause” (4:7:86)

9. Family love is love unconditional

10. “… it hurts me just as much as it does you…” (Laurence 10)

11. “… I think this… To be my child…” (4:7:78-79).

12. Let yourself grow !

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