False Hope in King Lear :: King Lear essays

False Hope in power Lear Throughout Shakespe ares King Lear, there is a sense of renewal, or as L.C. Knights puts it, affirmation in spite of everything, in the comprise. These affirmative actions are vividly seen throughout the play that is highly infused with worthless, immorality and perverted values. These glimpses of hope seem to provide the lecturer with an underlying nonion of human goodness that remains present, throughout the lurking comportment of immorality and a lack of values. However, in the end it is questionable if these are true revelations, and if the affirmative notions are undermined, and thus less significant than the evil in which they are engulfed. In Act I Scene I, the offshoot glimmer of hope is revealed in the play at a cadence of madness, corruption and despair. In this scene, King Lear has created an environment of competition that promotes inconclusive flattery, among many a(prenominal) other things as he divides his kingdom in re lation to the join of love his daughters profess to him. King Lear in his willfulness and arrogance does not see the error that he makes in equating love with reward, in this competitive environment. Cordelia is the only single of the three sisters who cannot fully participate in the competition to gain her fathers inheritance by engaging in false flattery. Instead of trying to out due her sisters, she merely describes her love in relation to their filial bond. Although her father views this as a degrading provoke and banishes her, it is shown that through her filial bond, she loves her father with more depth and sincerity than her eager, egotism absorbed sisters. Cordelia emerges amid the moral depravity and social decay as one who is honest and true to her beliefs. In banishing his daughter Cordelia from the kingdom and taking apart her inheritance, King Lear is destroying the natural order of society. She is left abandoned by some(prenominal) her father and h er presumed suitor, Burgundy. Yet Shakespeare rewards Cordelias noble character with another suitor, the King of France. in spite of all that has occurred in relation to being left destitute and friendless, France gladly accepts the estranged Cordelia as his bride to be and applauds her