When Lear challenges his daughters to claim the land with speeches of love, Cordelia’s fist answer is “nothing”. She readily admits “I cannot heave my heart into my mouth”(act I, scene I, line 92-93). Feeling betrayed, Lear’s anger quickly mounts, causing him to rashly reject his youngest daughter. He wants her to love him yet it seems that he does not know her as he should. Had he truly loved her in return, he would know that she is a girl of actions and not words. The anger he posses comes from self-centeredness and uncontrolled emotion. Anger is a natural reaction to pain or hurt, yet this pain comes from unfair and untrue expectations of love. When he expects love from people he expects them makes him feel good and do as he wishes or expects. Loyalty is praising what he does without questioning, but true loyalty or love is wanting better for that person. Loyal Kent tries to bring Lear to wiser actions, only to be exiled. Lear is completely absorb in what he feels and his misfortunes, even after he is thrown out of the house is he blind to his wrong actions, complaining “I am a man more sinned against than sinning”(Act III, scene II, lines 58-59). At this point he is apathetic to all but himself, cloaking all his disappointments in anger and foolish
When Lear challenges his daughters to claim the land with speeches of love, Cordelia’s fist answer is “nothing”. She readily admits “I cannot heave my heart into my mouth”(act I, scene I, line 92-93). Feeling betrayed, Lear’s anger quickly mounts, causing him to rashly reject his youngest daughter. He wants her to love him yet it seems that he does not know her as he should. Had he truly loved her in return, he would know that she is a girl of actions and not words. The anger he posses comes from self-centeredness and uncontrolled emotion. Anger is a natural reaction to pain or hurt, yet this pain comes from unfair and untrue expectations of love. When he expects love from people he expects them makes him feel good and do as he wishes or expects. Loyalty is praising what he does without questioning, but true loyalty or love is wanting better for that person. Loyal Kent tries to bring Lear to wiser actions, only to be exiled. Lear is completely absorb in what he feels and his misfortunes, even after he is thrown out of the house is he blind to his wrong actions, complaining “I am a man more sinned against than sinning”(Act III, scene II, lines 58-59). At this point he is apathetic to all but himself, cloaking all his disappointments in anger and foolish