She is unmarried at the start of the play but leaves Lear's court to marry the King of France. The Earl of Kent and the Fool, two of Lear's most loyal companions, are very fond of her. Although she loves her father, she feels unable to make a flattering speech about how much she loves him.
Cordelia genuinely loves her father, but her refusal to flatter him leads to the tragedy that unfolds. Cordelia's tears at the news of her father's treatment prove her compassion and establish that she is, indeed, the opposite of her sisters.
Summary: Act 4, scene 7
He only partially recognizes her. He says that he knows now that he is senile and not in his right mind, and he assumes that Cordelia hates him and wants to kill him, just as her sisters do. Cordelia tells him that she forgives him for banishing her.
An angry King Lear sends Cordelia away. Quickly it is revealed that Cordelia does not, in fact, love her father less than Goneril or Regan. They quickly turn on him, while Cordelia remains loyal to him despite his harsh treatment of her and returns toward the end of the play to assist him against her sisters.
4 How did Cordelia meet Lear in the end? Ans 4 In the war between England and France, the French army was defeated by the English army and Cordelia was imprisoned. She met her father in the prison.
Cordelia loves her father as much as any child loves their parent but does not feel she can flatter her father by making him feel there is no room in her heart for any other love. Cordelia prefers to show rather than describe her feelings.
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.
After moving to Los Angeles, Cordelia inherited visions that allowed her to feel the pain of others, which changed her future from being a famous actress to "helping the helpless." Cordelia was similar to Buffy, in that they both started as shallow and vapid but gradually became more dedicated to others and their own ...
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.
In total, Cordelia is the victim of mystical pregnancy three times during the series: from a Haxil beast in this episode, as host of an unborn Skilosh demon in "Epiphany," and from Connor while possessed by Jasmine, as first revealed in "Salvage."
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.
Cordelia's suitor, the Duke of Burgundy, rejects her once she is dowerless, but the King of France values her honesty and takes her as his wife. Lear's kingdom is shared between Goneril and Regan and their suitors (the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall, respectively).
His two older daughters, Goneril and Regan, offer poetic speeches but his youngest and favourite daughter Cordelia refuses, declaring 'I love your majesty / According to my bond, no more nor less'. Lear is angry and disowns Cordelia, giving her share of the kingdom to her sisters' husbands to divide between them.
Regan, as the middle child, speaks next. Her love, she says, is even greater than Goneril's. Finally, it is Cordelia's turn to express the depth of her love for her royal father. But when queried by Lear, Cordelia replies that she loves him as a daughter should love a father, no more and no less.
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.
By refusing to take part in Lear's love test at the beginning of the play, Cordelia establishes herself as a repository of virtue, and the obvious authenticity of her love for Lear makes clear the extent of the king's error in banishing her.
Infuriated by Cordelia's lack of flattery, Lear divides his kingdom between Goneril and Regan, disinheriting Cordelia who then leaves Britain to marry the King of France. Lear also banishes his courtier Kent for speaking in Cordelia's defence.
Cordelia is hanged in King Lear because she supports her father against Edmund and her sisters. Edmund has both Lear and Cordelia imprisoned. He orders both of their executions as punishment for challenging his authority.
Burgundy rejects Cordelia when he discovers that she will bring him no dowry or inheritance.
When an all-powerful demon lord The Beast rises from the ground at the place he was born, Connor feels responsible. As The Beast causes fire to rain from the sky in an apparent apocalypse, Cordelia sleeps with Connor to give him some happiness before the end.
Later, in Angel's perfect-day dream sequence, Angel and Cordelia consummated their relationship, but Angel called out "Buffy!" as he lost his soul, just as he did in Sunnydale years earlier.
Her honest and literal presentation also make her comically bad at any form of deception. Cordelia is a textbook example of how autism can go undetected and undiagnosed in girls, especially if they are rich and pretty with traditionally feminine interests and hobbies like fashion or cheer-leading.
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.
The tragic flaw in the character of Cordelia:
She is a practical woman. She does not believe in showing off her sentiments toward her father in words. So, when King Lear wants to hear Cordelia's depth of love for him, she clarifies that she can never describe her depth of love in words for her dad.
In Act 4 Scene 7 When Lear is finally reunited with Cordelia he redeems himself by fully apologizing for his actions towards her and his subsequent death is therefore even more tragic. Cordelia's death finally hastens the demise of her father first to madness then death.