The first introduction to “good nature” is Cordelia, King Lear’s youngest daughter. Cordelia’s purely good nature is tested at the beginning of the play. Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. He insists that they profess their love for him. Regan and Goneril, Lear’s older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. Cordelia, however, says that her love cannot be put into words, and tries to convince her father that her sisters are simply trying to deceive him. Cordelia could have easily satisfied Lear by

At the end of the play, Lear and Cordelia are captured, and upon orders by Edmund, they are sent to prison to be killed while making it look as if it was an apparent suicide. This final act has proven to all that Edmund has no good, compassion, or remorse in his character and he represents the perfect evil.

The entire play is marked by characters and their fights that represent the battle of good verses evil. Cordelia signifies pure goodness throughout the play while faced with banishment and her father’s disapproval. Edmund on the other hand embodies all that is pure evil. He betrays his only family in a plot to gain control of the kingdom. He doesn’t feel ashamed for the things that he has done, rather takes joy in the malevolence that has become. Lear is the character who transforms from “blindness” in his ways to revelation. The conflict of these characters and their nature creates this great tragedy.

telling him exactly what her sisters said, yet she would not sway from her morals and good nature. As a result of her genuine love for her father

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