In the story king Lear says he hasn’t got long left to live.He asks 3 sisters who ever loves him the most will get the biggest peace of land they all have to give a speech of honesty on how much they love king Lear.
The first one to speak Gonriel. She obviously was desperate for the land and she was ready to lie to king Lear and that kind of tells us about her personality she just wants to lie to get the things she wants. So she said” you are dearer than eyesight space and liberty could be valued”. She obviously doesn’t care she just wants what she wants. You can tell that she doesn’t really love her father she would definitely prefer to see than see her father again,she would rather be trapped in a cage than not to be free to see her father again if you didn’t` love somebody you wouldn’t want that.King real didn’t comment on it he didn’t sound impressed “what shall my second daughter do” he said.The second daughter spoke and said:
“Sir iam made of the self same metal that my sister is and in my love i think i love you more than my sister does and only she comes to short and that i profess my self an enemy to all other joys ” that means she said that her first sister that spoke her speech was to short and not good enough she says she would rather never be happy to love her father
And how Regan said only she comes to short Regan didn’t think Gonerial speech wasn’t good enough and started to talk about the quantity of gonriels speech.She thinks that she loves King Lear exactly how Goneriel does but she loves him even more.You can see that she just wants what she wants she doesnt care about her sisters anymore she is making them her enemy now Regan was being very selfish at that point and by the last 2 that had spoke they are very desperate to get the piece of land.
Then Cordelia was the last person to speak as King Lear introduces her as the 3rd sister “To thee and thine hereditary ever remain this ample third of our fair kingdom can you say better than your other 2 sisters” then she opens her mouth and says “nothing my lord … ” there was silent pause and then king Lear said “NOTHING!!!” Cordelia replies with “nothing” she says nothing because she can’t speak words of love when she doesn’t feel real love but only the love of family blood bond .but she doese love her father enough that she will not marry another man because she feels she would have to split her love and she doesn’t want to love him.
So I think that Cordelia was the most honest sister out of her sisters but she probably would of now got the worst piece of land.
February 19, 2016 at 8:55 pm
Jay, this is a very good start to a challenging start. You have analysed the quotation about liberty exceptionally well – you have unlocked the ‘select a quotation’ badge through this analysis.
Targets:
1) You need to separate your ideas about each character into different paragraphs.
2) You need to shorten some of your sentences. At times you are saying really good things but they are difficult to follow.
3) Can you analyse the words and phrases used in the quotations you have selected to explain how each of the characters come across? You do this exceptionally well in the opening paragraph.
4) Your essay should focus on how Shakespeare makes the audience feel about the three daughters and their father, not who should or shouldn’t get the land.