At the beginning of the play,
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.
But when queried by Lear, Cordelia replies that she loves him as a daughter should love a father, no more and no less. 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.
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.
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.
When he tests each by asking how much she loves him, the older daughters, Goneril and Regan, flatter him. The youngest, Cordelia, does not, and Lear disowns and banishes her.
3. What reply did Cordelia give to her father's question? Ans: Cordelia replied to her father that he was her father and had cared for her, fed her, and loved her.
Why did Cordelia give him a different answer? Ans: Cordelia gave him a different answer because she genuinely loved her father unlike her sisters.
Wilson and Cordelia kiss again and spend the night together in lovemaking. She wakes the next morning to an empty bed and is horrified to find she has grown very pregnant.
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.
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.
Cordelia's death highlights the injustice and brutality of the world in which the play is set. Her death ends Lear's last hope of happiness, and exposes fully the foolishness of his efforts to force his daughters to express their love for him.
Edmund is killed in a duel by his brother, Edgar; Regan is poisoned by her sister, Goneril; Goneril commits suicide with a dagger; and Cordelia is hanged in prison.
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.
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.
All while her sisters are professing their false love to their father, Cordelia is concerned about what she is going to say. She knows that words cannot express what she has in her heart, so she says “nothing.”
Last month's issue, "Slayer, Interrupted," ended with Buffy discovering she's pregnant, and in this month's issue (the sixth in the Season 9 series), she turns to the person who best knows what it means for a Slayer to have a child: Robin Wood (played by D.B.
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.
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.
In a life or death situation with Buffy, Cordelia privately confessed to her to that unless it was some temporary insanity, she genuinely fell in love with Xander.
And Cordelia with a heavy heart departed, for she knew the cunning of her sisters and she wished her father in better hands than she was about to leave him in.
Romantic. Cordelia Chase — Wesley and Cordelia met at Sunnydale High School, where Wesley was sent to act as Watcher to Buffy and Faith. The two quickly grew attracted to each other, though Wesley had great doubts about it due to the age difference.
Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
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.
Because she didn't want to compete with her sisters in boasting about her love for her father.