King Lear Cordelia Essay

While growing up our parents care for us, they provide for us, and they teach us important life lessons. However, as time goes on our roles start to change until they are eventually switched. We become the caretakers of our parents and we care for them and provide for them as they have done for us. However, this proves not to be the case for King Lear and his two daughters Goneril and Regan. In his drama, King Lear, William Shakespeare conveys Cordelia's outrage towards her sisters’ horrible treatment of their father in order to emphasize her belief that instead of being treated cruelly for his mental dilapidation, that he instead should be waited upon like the king he once was and that they should remain loyal to him like he was to them.

When Cordelia finds out how poorly her father had been treated she is extremely surprised because of how well he cared for them. The first example of this would be the fact that King Lear was going to divide his kingdom amongst all his daughters. He was going to give them everything he had and all he wanted in

Cordelia learns that Goneril and Regan allowed King Lear to go out into the storm. One in which Cordelia says, “Mine enemy’s dog, though he had bit me, should have stood that night against my fire.” Another example is that Goneril and Regan treat King Lear with disrespect and don’t honor his wishes. Cordelia is outraged by this because King Lear gave everything to them. Another reason she is outraged is because being such an old man, he could easily have died in the storm. Luckily however, he found refuge with some swine in a barn. Based off these actions and the fact that they feel no remorse for them, Cordelia condemns her sisters. She feels that King Lear should have been treated better, if not because he was their father, at least because he was an old