Lear's daughters Gonerill and Regan sabotage the power structure of the monarchy by falsely professing their love for their father in order to gain power and inheritance. ... Lear's blindness due to his power is emphasised when he fails to see through the superficial and hyperbolic words of Gonerill when she says, "I love you more than eyesight, space and liberty-, yet is angered when Cordelia states "I love you according to my bond, no more, no less-. ... This is reinforced by using the love test scene of the play as an example, proposing that this scene is a variant of the wedding ...

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