In Shakespeare story King Lear, two of the women were...

In Shakespeare story King Lear, two of the women were portrayed as emasculating and disloyal while the third was honest and truthful. Showing, that most women who have power can’t be trusted. The story told of a king named Lear who had three daughters named Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia. Lear had given his two oldest daughters Goneril, and Regan a piece of land even though they had lied to their father telling him feelings that they didn’t really have. Then there was his youngest daughter she was as honest and truthful as any other child could be. King Lear’s two oldest daughters, Goneril and Regan were liars and were not trustworthy women. They both would do and say anything just to get an edge. Like for example in Act I of the story†¦show more content†¦It all started with Goneril when she had told him that he could live with her, but he was only going to be allowed to bring fifty of his men instead of all his hundred. The King was so upset that he had put a curse on his daughter and went to his next daughter hoping for a change, but the story turned out the same with Regan. She told him he was allowed to only have twenty-five men these two factors made King Lear so upset and outraged that he had claimed that he didn’t want to have anything to do with them two. He was very upset that he had banished his youngest daughter and she was the one that was telling the truth and probably would have taken the best care of him. With this being said this was showing that even though the two oldest girls were given the land and exactly what they had wanted it still wasn’t enough for them and decided to go after their own father just because they wanted to get more out of him. This story had a plot twist in it being that his own two daughters had turned on him after he had trusted them from what they had told him. Sadly the king was not the only one that was being played with by the two scornful women. Goneril had a clever plan in going after Edmund to try and seduce him into thinking that he could have her behind her husband’s back. She had thought she could get him to try killing her