However, seeing with his heart, Kent saw Cordelias true love for her father. He attempts to change Lears mind with blunt honesty.
Kent.
Answer my life my judgment .
Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least c.
See better, Lear; and let me still remain .
The true blank of thine eye.
( T,1, ln. 150~151, 157~158).
Kent is trying to help Lear notice Cordelias true love, but Lear was unable to see the reality. He begins to get mad, and as it increases he becomes narrow minded. .
Lear.
If on the tenth day following.
Thy banishd trunk be found in our dominions .
The moment is thy death.
(T,1, ln. 175~178).
Lear disowns both Kent and Cordelia, and divides his kingdom between the older two daughters. He never was able to recognize them for what they truly were. Lear could only look at the surface, and couldnt determine what the deeper meanings of their speeches were. .
Before loosing his eyes, Gloucesters eyesight was much like Lears. He couldnt see the reality of what was going around him. Edmund draws up a false letter that implicates the good son, Edgar, in a conspiracy to kill his father. Edmund accidentally allows Gloucester to see the letter and tricks him into believing that his honest and only true son was trying to assassinate him. .
Gloucester.
O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter .
Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain!.
Worse than brutish!.
(T,2, ln. 71~73).
As soon as Gloucester reads the letter which is supposedly from Edgar, he doesnt take much time to think about it for a moment and calls his son a villain. Edmund did little convincing to Gloucester to make him believe the letter was from Edgar. This villain of mine comes under the prediction; theres son against father. (T,1, ln. 104~105) Gloucester makes a great delusion, and never stops to think if Edgar would do such a thing. He is like Lear that he cant see into his sons character, but can only see what is showing on the surface.
