Free Will In Shakespeare's King Lear

Kent had made Lear's angry in these sincere words for his interest in the life of Lear and the country but the fool is controlled in Lear's mind, after, Lear hears the speech of Kent, Lear has decided to banish Kent out of Kingdom. especially when Lear says: Five days we do allot thee for provision To shield thee from disasters of the world, And on the sixth to turn thy hated back

Eventually, Cordelia is recognized Kent and thanks to the noble attitude toward the king, Obviously this situation when the meeting between Kent and Cordelia. She says: O, thou good Kent, how shall I live and work, To match thy

(1964:278). Lear knew the value of true love through his suffering. The flattering words could not measure the true love between father and daughter. Lear said: you must bear with me. Pray you now./ Forget and forgive; I am old and foolish. (IV.vii.97-98). Colston refers to the worth of forgiveness, reconciliation, and redemp¬tion, however momentarily comforting between Lear and Cordelia and others, emphases on the ideas of love through four loves .(2013:16). In which Shakespeare reflects his idea of love that should be guided and controlled by wisdom, intelligence, and good judgment.

Whereas Cordelia was a paragon of the virtue, she was a good royal figure, her treatment with her father reflected her personality as a just, sensible and forgiving daughter. "Cordelia's virtues whine with a heavenly radiance, just as her sister's extreme cruelty appeared as a blackness which was the bandage of Hell".(Shakespeare,1966:4). It is obvious that Cordelia is treating with her father by all respect and love for him as a father and a God, therefore she had asked him the forgiveness and bliss, Cordelia: how does my royal lord? How fares