Her critique in this novel points towards industrialised farming and the exploitation of land and its resources. However, A Thousand Acres is not only a rewriting of Shakespeare’s work, it also comments on the social and agricultural circumstances in the United States of the 1960s and 70s, where the novel is set.
Jane Smiley rewrote the Shakespearean play King Lear by narrating the story from the eldest daughter’s point of view. The novel was written in 1991 and was rewarded with a Pulitzer Prize. In the following seminar paper I am going to write about concepts of ownership in terms of land in the novel A Thousand Acres written by Jane Smiley. Political circumstances or: the settingĤ.
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