Earl Of Gloucester introduces His illegitimate son To Earl Of Kent King Lear, the king of Britain Enters his court And he wished to divide his kingdom

1. Act I Of William Shakespeare’s
King Lear
By
R. Vedha,
Assistant Professor Of English,
Bon Secours College for Women,
Thanjavur.

2. Opening Scene
• Earl Of Gloucester introduces
• His illegitimate son
• To Earl Of Kent
• King Lear, the king of Britain
• Enters his court
• And he wished to divide his kingdom

3. Foolish Decision Of King Lear
• King Lear decided to divide
• His kingdom among his 3 daughters
• In a way
• That they would
• Declare their love
• for their father
• In front of the court

4. Flattery of the First 2 Daughters
• Goneril his first daughter &
• Regan his second daughter
• Started their speech
• In a way to
• praise their father
• Inorder to get his favour

5. Action Of Cordelia
• Cordelia Lear’s third daughter
expressed nothing in the court
• As she was not able to voice
• Her deep love for her father
• Which had been wrongly
• Understood by Lear

6. Banishment Of Cordelia
• Lear divided his kingdom into two
• In a way that his first two daughters
• Falsely flattered him
• inorder to get his kingdom
• So, Lear banished Cordelia &
• Disowns her

7. Banishment of Earl Of Kent
• When Earl Of Kent Understood
• The true voice of Cordelia
• He was also banished
• From the kingdom

8. Marriage and rejection
• Duke of Burgundy the suitor of Cordelia
• also rejected her
• As she had no dowry
• But the other two daughters
• Were married with their suitors

9. The partition in the kingdom
• The splitting up of the kingdom
• Had been realized both
• In a Literal & Figurative way

10. Stay Of Lear
• The foolish Lear
• Decided to stay
• With his first 2 daughters
• In an alternative manner
• Who really had no love for their father