The Deception In King Lear

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I profess
Myself an enemy to all other joys
Which the most precious square of sense possesses,
And find I am alone felicitate
In your dear highness' love."
I.i.71-75

This goes to show that she is more greedy than her sister and her words are also
falser. She wants more than her sister and will do anything to attain her goal.
Her ambition to get what she wants is evident in the words that she speaks. She
claims herself to be "an enemy to all other joys" but she is really the enemy to
her father.
The next person King Lear calls to speak is his soft-spoken daughter,
Cordelia. Lear does not have much respect for her because she does not flatter
him and put him on the pedestal that he feels that he should be put on. This is
exactly what his other daughters do and he feels very strongly that Cordelia
should do the same. Because of all the flattery that was given him by his other
two daughters, he ...

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my Lord, and true." (I.i.106) She is saying that the love that she has
for the king is true and sincere. She is the only one out of all of her sisters
that speaks the truth and shows that she really is sincere. Because of her
sincerity and her wish not to flatter him like the rest of his daughters, Lear
proceeds to ridicule her and then takes away her dowry. This is what she meant
when she utters the words "nothing." She has nothing to say that will flatter
the king because she is true and sincere. She is not like her sisters who would
do anything to get what they want. After he does this, he continues to badger
and ridicule her for her lack of affection and love for him. ...

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