At Kent's departure, the King of France and Duke of Burgundy enter, both of whom are suitors for
Burgundy rejects Cordelia when he discovers that she will bring him no dowry or inheritance. Burgundy, who cannot love Cordelia without her wealth, is guilty of selfish motivations.
The Duke of Burgundy withdraws his suit upon learning that she's been disinherited, but the King of France is impressed by her honesty and agrees to marry her.
Lear strips her of her dowry, divides the kingdom between his two other daughters, and then banishes the earl of Kent, who has protested against Lear's rash actions. The king of France, one of Cordelia's suitors, chooses to marry her despite her father's casting her away.
At the beginning of the play, Cordelia refuses to flatter her father. Clearly, Cordelia does not love her father less than Goneril and Regan; she refuses to flatter him because she disapproves of her sisters' deception and does not wish to participate in it.
Lear wants Cordelia to talk to him in the flattering way everyone else does, and when she refuses, he is angry. The extremity of his anger seems to surprise everyone, and his rage may be a sign that Lear is becoming senile or losing his mind.
She reminds her father that she also will owe devotion to a husband when she marries, and therefore cannot honestly tender all her love toward her father. Lear sees Cordelia's reply as rejection; in turn, he disowns Cordelia, saying that she will now be "a stranger to my heart and me" (I. 1.114).
Instead of professing her love and obedience like her two-faced sisters, Cordelia insists that she "cannot heave [her] heart into [her] mouth." In other words, Cordelia insists that her love for Lear is literally unspeakable.
Cordelia had two suitors at the court who hoped to marry her. Hearing she has been disowned and has lost the portion of the land that would have been her dowry, one of them decides they don't want to marry her anymore but the King of France says 'She is herself a dower' and takes her to France with him.
Goneril and Regan make extravagant protestations, but Cordelia remains silent. Lear disowns Cordelia. Although she is now without a dowry, the King of France agrees to marry her.
Edmund orders his officer to stage Cordelia's death as a suicide. Without hesitation, the officer accepts Edmund's orders, seemingly unconcerned about killing the king and his daughter.
Duke of Burgundy: Suitor of Cordelia. He decides to reject her after Lear disowns her. King of France: Suitor of Cordelia. He marries her even though Lear has disowned her.
Key quotation: Cordelia's refusal
She has the natural love of a child for her parent and believes her father should recognise this without the kind of slick flattery offered by her sisters. By rejecting Cordelia's truthfulness, Lear begins the destruction of his world and his identity.
In King Lear, Cordelia married the king of France. She is able to marry the king of France because he admires and values her despite her lack of dowry from her father, Lear, and lack of connection to the throne.
Cordelia, who is portrayed as an honest and direct woman, tells him she loves him as she could ever love her own father. Infuriated by what he perceives as her lack of love and respect, Lear banishes her.
In the final scenes, Cynthia finally breaks into tears and Evelyn begs her forgiveness and love saying she will do 'anything' to prove her devotion. The following montage shows the women sleeping in the bed together, the trunk being removed and Evelyn's scripts and instructions being burnt.
Instead, the suitors must pick from three caskets, gold, silver, or lead. The one who picks the casket with Portia's portrait inside will be able to marry her. If the wrong casket is chosen, he must remain single, not reveal which casket he picked, and leave immediately. The first suitor is the Prince of Morocco.
Answer and Explanation: If the suitor chooses the wrong casket, he may ''never in (his) life/To woo a maid in way of marriage. '' In other words, he can never get married.
Lear, howling over Cordelia's body, asks, “Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, / And thou no breath at all?” (5.3. 305–306). This question can be answered only with the stark truth that death comes to all, regardless of each individual's virtue or youth.
But Cordelia, disgusted with the flattery of her sisters, whose hearts she knew were far from their lips, and seeing that all their coaxing speeches were only intended to wheedle the old king out of his dominions, that they and their husbands might reign in his lifetime, made no other reply but this, that she loved his ...
Cordelia cannot decide how to respond to Lear's demand that she declare her love for him. In this aside, she makes it clear that she does love Lear. Cordelia just doesn't know how to express her love. One of King Lear's central themes is the difficulty of truly expressing feelings in language.
Answer and Explanation: Cordelia represents goodness and loyalty in King Lear. She is honest, pure, and brave. At the beginning of the play, she refuses to unduly praise her father even though she knows that doing so would be politically advantageous for her.
Cordelia sacrificed herself so that Mallory could rise as Supreme, going back in time and killing Michael before he could come into his own as the ender of days. But unbeknownst to the witches, another Antichrist was born to take his place—to Timothy and Emily, the lovers seen in Outpost 3.
Unable to let her friend suffer, and realizing that fighting evil was her true calling, Cordelia had Skip return the timeline to normal, and accepted his offer to become a half-demon.
King Lear ends with a battle for the British throne. Edmund wins the battle for the throne, but is then killed by his brother Edgar. As Edmund dies, he admits that he has sent orders for Lear and Cordelia to be executed. The orders are reversed, but too late; Cordelia has already been killed.