... Kent for speaking honestly and truthfully. Cordelia's instrument of showing a genuine connection through her words and language is taken away from her, by her sisters and by her father, King Lear, himself. King Lear speaks words of slanderous intent as he further degrades Cordelia's social standing to her prospective husband, by calling her "a wretch whom Nature is ashamed" (1.1.215), yet France himself doesn ... cannot be found no matter how much he searches, "she whom even now was your best object, The argument of your praise, balm of your age" (1.1.217-18). King Lear is seemingly unfa...

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