King Lear is the man who is tragically flawed and whose ultimate destruction is lead by his eldest daughters. A family that should be held together by unconditional love is torn apart by the selflessness of Lear’s eldest daughters, Goneril and Regan. Shakespeare suggests at the beginning of his famous play that love cannot be expressed in plain words through the character Cordelia, Lear’s youngest daughter. The two older sisters that should be bounded together by sisterhood turn against one and other as well as their father. What does this say about love? The boundaries are eliminated when a character is forced to protect himself from the world, and even his own family. A person can only care for so long before deciding that a relationship is no longer healthy. When that time comes, it has to be decided whether it is worth the sacrifice of unhappiness, and to be a slave to the receiver. Shakespeare juxtaposes the healthy relationships of Edgar and Gloucester with Goneril and Lear, in order to show love versus a forced and fake connection. Is love worth the pain and disappointment?
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