King Lear Sacrifice

Valuing something does play into part by what we sacrifice in different ways to others. Holding something close to heart can only be determined by what was sacrificed in order to achieve it, and this ties into King Lear from Shakespeare’s play. Lear willingly gave up his land for his daughters to inherit; however, this affected the outcome of the values and his life that emerged out of it. In the play, Lear gives land to his daughters Regan and Goneril which in turn lead him to be a homeless beggar on the street. Being rejected by his own family in the means of wealth and pity turn Lear into valuing what he has lost: Cordelia. This loss gives the meaning of love and worship into what was thrown away in the beginning and because of this regretful action that has been done, Lear faces the

A king who lives a continuous life of riches begins to be blinded by the fact that everything they have is at the tip of their fingers. However, once Lear sacrifices the land of his kingdom to his ungrateful daughters, he endures a life of a peasant which changed his thinking. In one act, Lear says that he cannot believe that his daughters would have turned their backs on him the way that they did. He is forced to engage in a lifestyle that was clearly not his in the first place. Lear, if he would have known that would be the outcome of his sacrifice, probably would have not given up what he did for his daughters. Because of this so-called love that was given to him in return for his part of what he gave up, Lear begins to value what he had rather than what he has at the end. This highlights the outcome of the tragedy of the play in which sacrificing something can really lead to valuing what he initially had on his behalf. This play portrays the negative side of events that can occur because of what was given up in the first