Betrayal And Greed In King Lear By Shakespeare

A person’s way of life sometimes doesn’t reflect their inner values and beliefs that an individual truthly has. Although, it is not seen how a person is until he or she does and action that expresses her mentality and values that help others see who they really are inside. For example, in the play of king Lear, written by shakespeare, it is seen how many of the characters seem to be another person who they really aren’t. This example can be seen since the very beginning of the play. For example, in the beginning of the play a father of three daughters who is king of a kingdom wants to give his power to his daughter's based on how much each one of them loves him. Consequently, in the time of expressing their love to their father, the daughters act and are seen as they love their father extremely much. Although, as the story progresses, the love that the daughters had shown before has disappeared as soon as they gain power and control of their father's power. The reason for why their love to their father vanishes can be explain to be just a plan that they had in order to fool their father and gain control. Furthermore, this evil scheme can be seen to be part of their idea when telling their father that they love him as soon as they get power and don't …show more content…
This time instead of the father giving his power away, one of his son is planning an evil plan against him and his brother in order to get the entire heritance of his father once he’s death. Furthermore, Edgar, the son who doesn’t do anything wrong and is being framed by his brother; he has a value of loyalty and bravery that is clearly seen after all the wrongdoings that is done against him. As previously mentioned, Edgar's brother is trying to frame him in order to get his father’s inheritance, with this it means that he is going to trick his father into think that Edgar is an evil person even if he is