shakespeare's king lear
...heave my heart into my mouth; I love your majesty according to my bond, nor more; nor less.” The declaration of the daughter’s love for their father reveals that their love can be summarized and will take measures to acquire wealth. Though Cordelia could not profess her love for her father by defined words, she proves to be the truthful daughter although the appearance of words would not complete the confirmation. The physical blindness of Gloucester reveals the correlation between his loss of sight and his inability to distinguish the morals of his two sons, Edmund and Edgar. Gloucester loses his eyes by the confrontation with Cornwall and Regan. The time that Gloucester had his eyes, he did not see the betrayal that Edmund was formulating. “Let me beseech your grace not or do so,” reveals the underlying nature of Gloucester. Although Gloucester is physically handicap, it reveals Edgar, the faithful son. Edgar adopts the wretched disguise of an insane beggar to maintain his life due to Edmund’s deceit. In his disguise as Tom O’Beddlam he manages to gain attention of the now powerless King Lear. Edgar, the son who was more loyal to his father, Gloucester, is haunted by jealousy and betrayal by his illegitimate brother, Edmund. Edgar proclaims, “Who gives anything to poor Tom?” as a declaration of the poverty of the commoners of the town. The scene is a revelation to Lear, because he realizes that he has done nothing to help his kingdom. Lear sees the poverty of Tom O’Bed...