King Lear Parallel Points
The emotional effect is heightened in King Lear with Shakespeare’s use of a subplot that mirrors the father-child relationships, the corruption of political power, and the death of the protagonist in the main plot. The subplot of Gloucester, Edmund, and Edgar in King Lear serves three main purposes. The main plot is the betrayal of King Lear by his two elder daughters, to whom he abdicates his power, during the first part of the play. The subplot is the similar story of the betrayal of the Earl of Gloucester by his illegitimate son Edmund. In both cases, the other victim of the conniving children is the one child who was truly faithful to the father: Cordelia in the case of the king Lear and Edgar in the case of Gloucester. Both betrayals occur because the fathers foolishly believe their sinister children who trick them into believing that their good-hearted siblings are the villains.
The first theme of the subplot in King Lear is to resonate with the main plot. It reinforces the idea that fathers should be wary whenever their offspring sweet talk them to convince them that their other children are plotting against them. King Lear, first of all goes against nature by dividing his property while being alive. The more flatter from his daughters the larger the land they would attend, despite the warning of his advisers he listen two his eldest daughter praise him of being the best father and king the world has ever seen, with this he gave them a handsome amount of wealth. Nonetheless Cordelia does not find this amusing, she tells the king “she loves him no more and no less a daughter loves her father”, being the king’s precious daughter and angry clouding his judgment he banish her without a second thought and the two other daughter are extremely joyful with this as they could easily manipulate their father more since he is in an emotional state of mind. With Gloucester its starts off when Edmund come to live with his half brother Edgar the legitimate son of
The first theme of the subplot in King Lear is to resonate with the main plot. It reinforces the idea that fathers should be wary whenever their offspring sweet talk them to convince them that their other children are plotting against them. King Lear, first of all goes against nature by dividing his property while being alive. The more flatter from his daughters the larger the land they would attend, despite the warning of his advisers he listen two his eldest daughter praise him of being the best father and king the world has ever seen, with this he gave them a handsome amount of wealth. Nonetheless Cordelia does not find this amusing, she tells the king “she loves him no more and no less a daughter loves her father”, being the king’s precious daughter and angry clouding his judgment he banish her without a second thought and the two other daughter are extremely joyful with this as they could easily manipulate their father more since he is in an emotional state of mind. With Gloucester its starts off when Edmund come to live with his half brother Edgar the legitimate son of