much masculine. He becomes outraged at his daughter Cordelia when she claims that, “I love your majesty according to my bond no more or no less” (Shakespeare, I.i, 92-93) and “disclaims all” his ”parental care.” (Shakespeare, Ii, 112) Harold Bloom author of Shakespeare: The Evolution of the Human states that “the lack of a mate leaves Lear wanting to be loved,.” (Bloom, 497) but he also is quick to mention that “Lear nevertheless always demands more love than can be given within human limitations.” (Bloom, 493) It is quite possible that Lear’s wife has died recently and it is his daughter’s, which are all that he has remaining. As result his desire to see them confess their love for him is the result and the reason for his resentment of Cordeila as she has not given Lear the full amount of love he desires. In Titus Andronicus Titus turns away from everything female, however Lear seems to very much desire females in his life however is unable to obtain them because of his extreme masculine nature. After the dismissal of Cordeila Lear advocates the throne and turns toward both Goneril and Regan for comfort. He travels first to Goneril’s home and then to Regan’s to visit, much the way that older parents of today will come to visit for long periods so is the case for Lear. Ania Loomba points out in her essay Outsiders In Shakespeare that the house that Lear arrives to is not what he expects, “there are no grandchildren for him, only bleak coldness.” (Loomba, 155) Instead of finding any form of the feminine in either house he is greeted by daughter’s who only express manly qualities such as, aggression, hostility, and mistrust. They see their father as suffering “the imperfections of long-ingraff’d condition, but therewithal the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years.” (Shakespeare, I.i, 297-299) F...
