Why do goneril and regan hate lear

Why does Cornwall blind Gloucester? Who rules Britain at the end of the play? Quotes Goneril and Regan Quotes. You see how full of changes his age is. The observation we have made of it hath not been little. He always loved our sister most, and with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off appears too grossly. He hath ever but slenderly known himself. They may even garner a little understanding when they fear that Lear may easily treat them in the same way he treated Cordelia or worse considering that she was his favorite.

But soon we discover their true natures — equally devious and cruel. We know that Lear can be vain and vengeful and cruel in the way that he treats Cordelia at the beginning of the play. Goneril tries to explain that she loves Lear more than her other sisters;. The sisters are very masculine in their actions and ambitions, subverting all accepted notions of femininity. This would have been particularly shocking for a Jacobean audience.

Goneril hatches a plan to oust her father from his seat of power by undermining him and ordering the servants to ignore his requests emasculating her father in the process. Both sisters participate in the most horrific scene of the play — the blinding of Gloucester. The sisters share the ambitious traits of Lady Macbeth but go further by participating and reveling in the violence that ensues. The murderous sisters embody a frightening and unwavering inhumanity as they kill and maim in the pursuit of self gratification.

Eventually the sisters turn on each other; Goneril poisons Regan and then kills herself. The sisters have orchestrated their own downfall. It could be argued that the harshest judgment is that no one laments their deaths.

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