Feminism in King Lear

Reading King Lear, I learned of the female roles that are used in the play. The role of the females play a central theme and the decision the female characters make in the play roles up the lives of the male characters in the play. To start off the play is about King Lear and his three daughters. He gives his three daughters the right to prove their love for him in return to get the his power and wealth in equals. The two oldest daughters Regan and Gonreail both say that they love their father more than anything else in the world. The youngest daughter Godelai doesn't feel it is right for her to confess of her love for her father in return for his wealth or power.

Throughout the play the writer makes both of King Lear's daughters as witches. They are cruel and obnoxious. They have no pity on their poor old father. Both daughters kick out their father and fight their husbands they cheat and get jealous of one another. This can be seen as a feminist reading because here any woman can argue the lives these two sisters lead. Both sisters are cruel and mean, to which many woman would argue because that isn't what a typical female would do. Woman are portrayed as being evil.

On the other had the play also speaks of the youngest daughter Gordieila, who didn't want to choose between her father's love and property. She is shown as the strong and powerful. She fights her two sisters at the end and forgives her father for disowning her. She is the powerful one at the end because she doesn't use her father's love or power to become the winner at the end of the book but instead she used her femininity of not fighting over power and hurting others to get what she wants. She played her role as any female would've with calmness and patience.