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King Lear, by William Shakespeare, is a tragic tale of filial conflict, personal transformation, and loss. The story revolves around the King who foolishly alienates his only truly devoted daughter and realizes too late the true nature of his other two daughters. ....

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.... daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance by judging who can proclaim their love for him in the grandest possible fashion. Cordelia finds that she is unable to show her love with mere words: Cordelia (aside) What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent (23). Cordelia’s nature is such that she is unable to engage in even so forgivable a deception as to satisfy an old king’s vanity and pride. Cordelia (aside) Then poor Cordelia! And yet not so, since I am sure my love’s More ponderous than my tongue (23). Cordelia clearly loves her father, and yet realizes that her honesty will not please him. Her nature is too ....