Wednesday, October 14, 2009
In King Lear this identity crisis affects Lear's daughters because Regan and Goneril conform with each other to plot against their father while Cordelia acts as an individual and expresses the true love for her father. Similarly to other aspects of life, when one is an individual, they are outcast in society while those who have the same thoughts bond and unite. In the play, the daughters that unite are given power although their motives are not about pleasing their father, rather taking all of his power and eventually breaking his heart. In the end, Cordelia is appreciated by her father when he finally realizes she is the only one that loved him and he is heartbroken to learn he has been wrong in disowning her.
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I don't see how the evil sisters suffer an "identity crisis"--in what way(s)?
ReplyDeleteThe evil sisters do not suffer an identity crisis, yet their actions affect Cordelia and cause her to question her actions and herself. Cordelia acts as an individual which is risky and causes her to be outcast by her father. At the end of the play she is finally accepted by her father, which should have happened in the beginning, yet both die in the end when he finally realizes the truth.
ReplyDeleteIt seems very cruel that when Lear finally accepts his daughter for her true love, they both perish. It is definitely not a happy ending.