There's no Bond like that of a Father and his Daughters.

From the moment the play starts, you can see an obvious role that femisims plays throught it. It starts with King Lear asking his three daughters to prove who loves him more, and the one he believes to love him the most will get the greatest share of his kingdom. This is sexits beyond the book, because if he had a son he would get everything no questions asked, btu since he doesn't have that choice he has to decide on another way to splt up his kingdom, and this is how he chooses to go about it. He could've did a lot of other things to spilt it, such as giving it all to the oldest daughter or spilting it evenly. But no King Lear wanted to feel powerful and as if he had control over his three daghters, so he decides to make them gravel at his feet. The two oldest, Regan and Goneril, are like putty in his hands. They begin to drool over him. But his yougnest daughter, Cordelia, tells him that she loves him as much as adaughter can love a father, but no more. He doesn't like her answer so he gives her nothing, while he spilts the rest between the two older sisters. I feel that this is absolutly appolling. It would be bad enough if a stranger made them gravel at their feet, but it's their own father! He is treating his own felsh and blood as is they are less than human, and honestly it's digusting. BUt I don't know what's worse him telling them to do it, or them doing it with a smile on their face. Cordelia stood up for what she believd in. She did say that she loved her father, beacuse she truely does. But she wasn't about to kiss the earth he walks on for some land. She believed her fatehr would understand where she was coming from, but obviously he didn't. In my opinion Cordelia is a true icon to feminism, she took her pride over money.