The youngest daughter Caroline shows a similar example of having too much ambition. ... Instead she puts her father out of her life because she wants only to satisfy her own needs. ... After the possible loss of the farm, he states, "I was working around your father! ... Similar to Pete, Rose blames most of their problems on her father's abuse. ... Rose is willing to hurt her father because he abused her as a child. ...
In order to share the kingdoms, he command his daughters to say how much they love him and promise to give the greatest part to that daughter. The two older daughters, Gonerill and Regan were wicked. ... King Lear is a story of intense suffering, people think it is too violence, because the suffering in the play is something people did not expected to happened. ... However everything goes wrong when he gave his entire kingdom to two treacherous daughters and exiles the faithful one, because she refused to exaggerate the love statement to her father. ... Crucially, his daughter order to shut th...
Moreover, in the view of the majority of critics, the play charts the growth of Lear's wisdom, as he learns the emptiness of worldly glory and comes to embrace the love of his daughter Cordelia as the one true value in his life. ... Ultimately, this kind of reading threatens to reduce King Lear to a form of melodrama, a story of the straightforward conflict of clearly identifiable and separable forces of good and evil, in which the outcome is tragic only in the sense of being disastrous for the main characters. ... Eliot: "I said the king was an incredibly foolish old man, which God know...
