ABSTRACT
Cordelia is King Lear’s youngest and most honest daughter, whom he mistakenly rejects. In the first scene of the play, knowing she will marry, Cordelia refuses to assert that all of her love will forever go to her father (as he demands) – unlike Regan and Goneril, her hypocritical sisters. Lear mistakes Cordelia’s honesty for a lack of affection and disinherits her. She marries the King of France and is not seen again until this scene, when she arrives with an army to help her father recover his throne. She has just heard that her once proud father is in a desperate physical and mental state.
