But the parallel stories of Lear's and Gloucester's sufferings at the hands of their own children reflect anxieties that would have been close to home for Shakespeare's audience. ... Annesley's youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister. ... Annesley's youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister. ... Annesley's youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister. ... Annesley's youngest daughter, Cordell, successfully defended her father against her sister. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the story starts, he wishes to hear how much his daughters love him and offer to give them land for their kind words. ... Albany is a character within the story who is married to King Lear's eldest daughter Goneril. ... In the story of King Lear, after the banishment of the kings loyal servant Kent and his daughter Cordelia there was an eclipse. ... Considering the fact that he saw the great mistake the king made with his daughters, he himself had a great weakness in the story. Gloucesters fear that the current situations, being that the sons/daughters going against their fathers cause...

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• Grade Level: High School

This story revolves around the continuous battle of good (King Lear's one truly good daughter Cordelia) and evil (Edmund, the son of Gloucester) within the theme of human nature. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He feels remorse, shame, and love for Cordelia, the one daughter who really loved her father for the man he was. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This story revolves around the continuous battle of good (King Lear's one truly good daughter Cordelia) and evil (Edmund, the son of Gloucester) within the theme of human nature. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He feels remorse, shame, and love for Cordelia, the one daughter who really loved her father for the man he was. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

King Lear: Comparison and Contrast of Gloucester and Lear The Shakespearian play, King Lear, is more than a simple story. King Lear is a combination of two smaller stories, which overlap and intertwine. ... "The subplot simply repeats the theme of the main one story."" ... In both cases the children still love their fathers, but are unable to express this in the way their fathers wish. ... In conclusion, the sub-plot of Gloucester and his sons is a mirror image of the main plot, Lear and his three daughters. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This story is about the errors in judgment a king makes while shrouded in a personal darkness. ... Bradley remarks, "turning the hearts of the fathers against their children and of children against their fathers" (225) when describing this catastrophic story. ... The story begins with the tired king ready to relinquish his throne and wealth to his three daughters. ... His two eldest daughters praise their father with lies 6), and a dark collusion for power and control ensues. ... His gift to his daughters is poisoned by his own beliefs of being noble and great. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The play "King Lear" by William Shakespeare is a tragic story that revolves around the King of England, King Lear. Lear banishes his only truly loving daughter and realises too late the true nature of his other two evil daughters. The sub-plot is about Gloucester's illegitimate son, Edmond, who plans to trick his father into thinking his other son Edgar is betraying him. ... Goneril and Regan's cruelty and ingratitude is apparent when they lie, disrespect, ridicule and throw their father into madness. ... Similarly, Edmond turns against Gloucester and Edgar in an attempt...

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Shakespeare's King Lear, is a story that takes many themes and relates them into one story, that has tested time for hundred's of years. ... The story is set upon his decisions, whether or not they were for the better is determined throughout the play. ... Speeches by Regan and Goneril to their father were noticeable lies to everyone, except to the blinded Lear. ... His one daughter that he truly loved, is the one lady that actually had enough dignity to speak her mind, and not be tricked into buying her love from her father. ... Many characters in this story show indications of ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout this story the is a pervasive sense of doom. ... Lear's good daughter Cordelia displays love and goodness. ... One where two evil daughters help banishes a good daughter in a love test by King Lear. ... Cordelia and Edgar provide for the fathers who wronged them. ... In his old age King Lear had divided his kingdom between his daughters, Goneril and Regan, who professed great love for him but then harassed him into madness. ...

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Edmund proposes that Edgar is devious and wants to kill the father, Glouster. ... Shakespeare presents the tragic story of these characters being blind, as it relates to the filial ingratitude presented in the play. ... King Lear is struggling with the relationship with a father and his three daughters, which was caused due to his excessive pride in the begining of the play. ... As a father, King Lear as a father is meant to provide for his children, except he says to cordelia that if she says nothing, he will give her nothing. ... King Lear should not have favoured Cordelia at first, and the...

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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the story of King Lear, the evidence used to support my claim is pervasive and is demonstrated by various elements throughout the play. ... First, he was easily deceived by his two eldest daughters' lies of their affection towards him. ... Kent, one of King Lear's most trusted and reliable men, was able to see Cordelia's true love for her father, and tried to protect her from her blind father's irrationality. ... He realized how wicked his two eldest daughters really were after they locked him out of the castle during a tremendous storm. ... He goes wherever his...

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• Grade Level: High School

The youngest daughter Caroline shows a similar example of having too much ambition. ... Instead she puts her father out of her life because she wants only to satisfy her own needs. ... After the possible loss of the farm, he states, "I was working around your father! ... Similar to Pete, Rose blames most of their problems on her father's abuse. ... Rose is willing to hurt her father because he abused her as a child. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The play starts out with King Lear giving his power to his two daughters, Regan and Goneril. ... King Lear gained wisdom by suffering by giving all his land to his two evil daughters and disowning Coredlia, the faithful one of the sisters. ... The worst display of betrayal to her father from Regan is when King Lear realizes both his daughters are evil and he leaves Gloucester's castle. ... The Duke of Cornwall plucked Gloucester's eyes out because Edmund betrayed his father and told Cornwall that Gloucester was a traitor. ... The end of King Lear was a very dramatic tragedy but j...

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• Grade Level: High School

This moral blindness condemns his relationship with his most beloved daughter Cordelia, at the start of the play. ... On disowning Cordelia, he utters, "We have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again". ... He discovers that Cordelia is the only daughter he wants to see, asking her to "forget and forgive". ... Before they realise their errors, both fathers undergo great personal suffering, but gain deep insight and are able to realise their mistakes. ... The power of Shakespeare's display of the philosophical and universal impact, is He took a story of wrongs ...

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This statement was his reaction to Cordelia's response to the amount of love that she has for her father. ... Cordelia was murdered by one of the guards sent by Edmund; Lear after the murder of his daughter killed the guard. King Lear brings the corpse of his youngest daughter out and exclaims thoughts of grief and horrible guilt. ... Although he was able to apologise for banishing Cordelia and forgive her for the answer that she gave him as to how much she loved her father, it was too late for Lear's spirit. ... We can take away from this story that blaming others and using alternat...

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Goneril rejects her father and for the first time Lear is beginning to see that she does not love him. At this point he still clings to the status of his kingship, even though he has relinquished power to the daughters. ... Edgar makes continual references about sight and eyes until he finally allows his father to "fall" for a bit. ... He is ranting about his daughters who have rejected him, turning him out into the storm. ... Clearly the images of sight and blindness are central to the story of King Lear and to the character development of Gloucester and King Lear himself. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The story of King Lear is one of William Shakespeare's most prized and cherished works. It enfolds the tragic downfall of King Lear due to his ineffective judgment regarding his three daughters" love for him. ... After Edgar's father, the Earl of Gloucester, had his eyes plucked out, Edgar guided him from place to place. ... Despite being ridiculed and dishonoured by his father earlier in the play, Edgar shows the audience his empathic and loving nature by supporting his father. ... Edgar also avenges his father's, as well as his own, mortification by defeating his brother Edmun...

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In order to share the kingdoms, he command his daughters to say how much they love him and promise to give the greatest part to that daughter. The two older daughters, Gonerill and Regan were wicked. ... King Lear is a story of intense suffering, people think it is too violence, because the suffering in the play is something people did not expected to happened. ... However everything goes wrong when he gave his entire kingdom to two treacherous daughters and exiles the faithful one, because she refused to exaggerate the love statement to her father. ... Crucially, his daughter order to shut th...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of these plays "King Lear" tells the story of a King with 3 daughters and an Earl with 2 sons 1 legitimate and 1 illegitimate. ... He feels that it is very unfair that his legitimate brother Edgar will inherit his father's wealth over him. ... We meet Edmund for the first time he is listening to a conversation Kent and Gloucester are having about the problems Lear will have splitting his land between his 3 Daughters. ... "Now god Stand up for Bastards" Act one Scene two Edmunds plans are beginning to work but Edmund attracts the attention of Lear...

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Moreover, in the view of the majority of critics, the play charts the growth of Lear's wisdom, as he learns the emptiness of worldly glory and comes to embrace the love of his daughter Cordelia as the one true value in his life. ... Ultimately, this kind of reading threatens to reduce King Lear to a form of melodrama, a story of the straightforward conflict of clearly identifiable and separable forces of good and evil, in which the outcome is tragic only in the sense of being disastrous for the main characters. ... Eliot: "I said the king was an incredibly foolish old man, which God know...

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• Grade Level: High School

William Shakespeare is a literary legend; composing dozens of plays, poems and short stories - mostly about love, incest, murder, tragedy and infidelity. ... Brabantio believes Othello, has swayed Desdemona with his dark magic, "My Daughter! Oh my Daughter!" ... Desdemona boldly speaks up to her father; "My duty is to the Moor now. ... Brabantio accepts his daughter's decision and joins their hands together, "Come Hither Moor, I here do give thee that with all my heart,"" (Shakespeare 789.) ...

• Word Count: 1320
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• Grade Level: High School