I will be doing my essay based on the play of King Lear. As you may know its about three sisters getting land as a reward of their love towards him. The sisters exaggerate their love in the fight for the most land. They use very effective sentences to explain their love.
This paragraph is going to be about Goneril and her love towards King Lear. Also how Shakespeare uses good phrases to exaggerate her love and how she just says all of these lies to get the land. Otherwise she would definitely not say she loves him the most. To show her fake love he uses quotes such as “dearer than eyesight space and liberty” , Shakespeare uses this triplet to show how false Goneril is and how she can just manipulate her father really easily. this shows that she is quite smart and that her father expects them to manipulate him or he is just not really smart. Also Goneril is answered by King Lear that she will be awarded with rivers and grass and rocks and mountains which means she has basically won as she has been awarded and then Regan speaks.
In my opinion Regan just as her sister really exaggerates her love and is a liar with her own father and is also a little manipulative not as much as her sister though. To show this she uses quotes like ” Only she comes too short ” And this is fake as you can not really say that your love comes too short as you either love someone or you don not love someone. Also she says “Of the self-same metal as my sister is ” so that should mean that she should love him the same as her sisters do but then she goes on to other things that mean that she loves him more than her sisters so this is why I say that she is a liar and exaggerates her love. She says that her loves comes too short but it is all stuck inside her however Shakespeare makes it so exaggerating that shows that she is a really exaggerating person which is really true.
Cordelia is very honest and truthful as she does not exaggerate her love. Her sisters do she is truthful and says “I love you according to my bond nor more nor less” which shows that she doesn’t exaggerate about her love for land. When her sisters are speaking she is thinking of loving and being silent which means that she wants to show her love by action not by words so she speaks ” Nothing” When she was asked to speak she said that but then her dad tells her to amend he speech a little so she says that she can not heave her heart into her mouth. This is also a bit disrespectful as he is her father but she says that she thanks him a lot for giving her a future and helping her at all times and she says she rewards him by loving him. So in my opinion Cordelia should win the most land as she is the honest one.
I think King Lear is a bit exaggerating as well and also sarcastic as he believes the other two daughters by how they exaggerate their love so this shows that he expects his daughters to exaggerate as they want the land which is quite weird as if I was their father I would expect them to be truthful just like Cordelia was so I would give the land to Cordelia. to show this King Lear says “How , how ,Cordelia ” As he is surprised by honesty which Shakespeare show by him saying this and he is really false and manipulative just like his two daughters. He is really sarcastic also as he expects them to lie .
In conclusion i think that King Lear is false so are Regan and Goneril and that the one that should win all the land is Cordelia as she is the only one that was honest so i like her as in my opinion she is the best of all. She is really respectful as she doesn’t lie right in front of her own dads face. Which shows that she is respectful and doesn’t lie for land
February 19, 2016 at 3:53 pm
Alberto, this is a very well structured and well thought through essay. Your paragraphs are clearly delineated and it helps the reader to understand your ideas.
Targets:
1) Your introduction is a little hard to follow because your sentences are too long. Could you use a series of simpler sentences to make this clearer?
2) While we can appreciate Shakespeare’s awesome language, we don’t need to praise Shakespeare for it. Instead, we should state what type of language he has used. We shouldn’t, for example, use words like ‘awesome’ unless we are reviewing something. This piece of writing is more critical.
3) Your topic sentences need to be really clear (these are the sentences at the start of your paragraphs). At the moment, your ideas aren’t very clear because your topic sentences are too muddled.
4) I think you could explain your quotations a little more. What do they mean? What do they tell us about the characters? What particular words stand out and why?
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