ve him to banish her from the family. Goneril and Regan looked King Lear in the eyes and “blinded” him with lies. King Lear was lucky to have a daughter that kept her faith in him and saw through her sisters’ lies. Cordelia saw that her father needed help and remained faithful even though Lear exiled her and turned his back on her. Cordelia knew deep down that her father would come to see what she really meant to him.As we travel through this long journey called life, we see many different people, places, and events. Sometimes we can’t tell what is real, or if someone is being real, or even if we are being real to ourselves. Gloucester and Lear were no different. Lear’s flaw was his arrogance and Gloucester’s was his shear ignorance. However, these are human flaws that many of us have. In the end, for these two men, it came down to looking within them. Whether they had been deceived, blinded, manipulated, or betrayed by other people, it all boiled down to who they were and having trust in who they were. These men went through all these misperceptions, but it finally resulted in them having a clear view of their world and themselves. ...
