es her to not be capable of creating children. “Into her womb convey sterility. Dry up in her the organs of increase, and from her derogate body never spring a babe to honor her. If she must teem, create her a child of spleen…” (I.4.292-296). Lear pronounces his hatred for his daughter in this, and many other instances. “You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty, you fen sucked fogs drawn by the powerful sun to fall and blister.” (II.2.4.187-190). The king wishes vapors to be drawn up from marshes by the sun to fall on and blister Regan. He also wants lightning to shoot her eyes, making her blind. Undoubtedly, Lear shows his disgust for his second oldest daughter and overreacts when she demands he not take one hundred knights. King Lear is not a completely terrible person. He is honorable and a respected head of a nation. The other evils at work in the story are King Lear’s two oldest daughters. They behave ruthlessly toward their father and are selfish not unlike their father. Few characters in the play become aware of how terribly the two treat Lear. The first person to notices the betrayal of the sisters is Cordelia. Goneril and Regan have no regrets about lying to the king about their love for him. When Cordelia refuses to lie to her father, like her sisters, she is banished. “Why have my sisters husbands if they love you all? … Sure I shall never marry like my sisters to love my father all.” (I.1.109-115). Cordelia is asking why her sisters have married if they truly love her father. She says that she will never get married like her sisters so that she can be faithful to and care for her father. Her sisters are not faithful and do not love Lear. Another person who realizes the evil of Goneril is Albany. He sees how Goneril treats the king and gets into a ruthless argument. “O Goneril, You are not wort...
