Cordelia Chase Essays

  • The Go-Getter

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    Shanghai office. At my internship, my supervisor in working the cameras at WICU has not exemplified the same managerial style and qualities as Cappy Ricks. He’s just not that mean, in the sense of sending me out on a bogus story or on a wild goose chase. But he does have confidence in me to shoot what I think is appropriate. His confidence in me does work, because if he would always shoot a story or scene, then how could I learn. I’m not really sure if I’m beneficial to the station because I am only

  • How Does Edmund Contribute To King Lear's Downfall

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    self loving man, who expects everyone else to love and respect him as well. In the first act King Lear commands his daughters to profess their love to him as payment for their part of the kingdom. The conflict starts when Lear’s youngest daughter Cordelia refuses to respond to the king’s request, due to the fact that she does not want to lie to her father. Lear comes across as a very egotistical

  • Analysis -- Buffy The Vampire

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    this is done by almost all of the characters, however, Xander does it in abundance. Oz is there for similar reasons to Xander. Willow is seen as the studious girl, whose involvement with Buffy complicates her life. There is also Cordelia, who is the opposite of Willow (Cordelia is more of a ¡¥cheerleader¡¦ type girl), yet her association with Buffy has the same effect on her life too. The character of Angel in ¡§Dead Man¡¦s Party¡¨ is used to represent Buffy¡¦s guilt towards what happened to Angel ¡V

  • Ruby Tuesday And Red Lobster Compare And Contrast

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    Ruby Tuesday and Red Lobster Hi Mr. Jarrod! As I know you are expecting an important client coming in from out of town, and I would like to help you decide by telling you about the differences and similarities between two of my favorite restaurants. Hopefully, you find one of them suitable enough for your business dinner. I have been to many restaurants in town, but so far Ruby Tuesday and Red Lobster are my favorite ones. Ruby Tuesday and Red Lobster are two similar restaurants with a slight difference

  • Drawings for King Lear

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    Drawings for King Lear While in Paris in 1843-4, Ford Madox Brown sketched a set of eighteen pen-and-ink studies for King Lear. Two designs he later developed as finished paintings--Lear and Cordelia (1848-49) and Cordelia's Portion (1866)--and a third he turned into an oil-sketch, Cordelia Parting from Her Sisters (1854). Sixteen of the drawings were shown in 1865 at his Picadilly Exhibition, and Brown wrote the captions that appear below the drawings for the exhibition catalog. The sixteen sketches

  • King Lear - Disruption Of Order In King Lear And The Causes

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    Kingdom is run best under one ruler as only one decision is made without contradiction. Another indication that order is disrupted is the separation of Lear's family. Lear's inability to control his anger causes him to banish his youngest daughter, Cordelia, and loyal servant, Kent. This foolish act causes Lear to become vulnerable to his other two daughters as they conspire against him. Lastly, the transfer of power from Lear to his eldest and middle daughter, Goneril and Regan, reveals disorder as

  • Analyzing King Lear's Tragic Flaws

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    loss of Cordelia and Kent. It is his arrogance in the first scene of the play that causes him to make bad decisions. He expects his favorite, youngest daughter to be the most worthy of his love. His pride makes him expect that Cordelia’s speech to be the one filled with the most love. Unfortunately for King Lear’s pride, Cordelia replies to his inquisition by saying, “I love your majesty/According to my bond and nothing less';(1.1.100-101). Out of pride and anger, Lear banishes Cordelia and splits

  • foolear Essay on Shakespeare's King Lear - The Fool In Us

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    the function and meaning of the word fool in the play.  While fool in Shakespeare's plays can represent a "dupe", a "madman", a "beloved one", a "court jester", or a "victim", it means all of these in King Lear.  For the Fool is the court jester, Cordelia is Lear's beloved one, and Lear, himself, is at various times duped, a madman, and a victim.  Yet, when we look at the words of Paul, we see the Fool tell Lear virtually the same thing in this play.  For Lear believes himself to be wise, when, in

  • Flawless Use of Parallelism in Shakespeare's King Lear

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    injustice, and to a selfish pursuit of their pleasure. In the early beginning of King Lear, Cordelia says that her love for her father is the love between father and daughter, no more, no less. "Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; nor more nor less." (Shakespeare.I.i.93-95) In response, Lear flies into a rage, disowns Cordelia, and divides her share of the kingdom between her two unworthy sisters. Such folly and injustice

  • A Comparison of King Lear and Coriolanus

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    time to conquer his own home state. His identity as a soldier remains constant, untroubled by internal reflection, and admits no room for empathy for others. We first see Lear as an autocratic dictator when he divides his kingdom and banishes Cordelia. He rules with an iron fist, refusing to accept advice from anyone. His chief flaw is the tendency to believe he must always be correct. This self-imposed perfection leads to a separation between him and his flawed, human subjects. He simply cannot

  • Feminist Reading of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

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    as an amendment for the misogynistic attitudes they contain. In our class discussions, we were vexed by a condition we found prevalent in both Othello and King Lear; both of these plays end with the deaths of two innocent women: Desdemona and Cordelia. Not only are these women innocent, they are by far the most benevolent and forgiving female characters in the play, little deserving their violent ends. During this discussion, we also added Ophelia to the list of innocent women who die at Shakespeare's

  • King Lear

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    King Lear, Abbey exhibited King Lear, another of his large, dramatic pictures, at the Royal Academy in 1898; the painting was accompanied in the catalog by these lines from Act I, scene i: Ye jewels of our father, with washed eyes Cordelia leaves you. I know what you are; And, like a sister, am most loth to call Your faults as they are named. Love well our father. To your professed bosoms I commit him. But yet, alas! stood I within his grace, I would prefer him to a better place. So

  • King Lear

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    daughter Cordelia. The old king, Lear, spoiled by his absolute power and his habit of receiving instant gratification, asks his daughters to verbalize the feelings that each has for her father in exchange for his kingdom. At this point the old king's downfall and a late life lesson for what years remain in Lear's life begin. The first two daughters, Goneril and Regan, put on an unnecessarily hyperbolic display of flattery just as their father requests, but the youngest daughter, Cordelia, plainly

  • Loyal Characters in Shakespeare's King Lear

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    are banished or mistreated by those to whom they are loyal. Cordelia, Edgar and Kent are all characters that exemplify this goodness and unwavering loyalty. Let us first consider King Lear and his relationship with his daughter Cordelia. When King Lear asks Cordelia to profess her love for him she merely answers that she loves him according to her bond, no more. Enraged, the king banishes her without an inheritance or dowry. Cordelia tries to explain that she will not speak of her love for him

  • Confrontations Between Young and Old in Shakespeare's King Lear

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    is Lear himself, and the younger generation consists of his daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia.  In the second plot of the play, Gloucester represents the older generation, and his sons, Edmund and Edgar exemplifies the younger generation.  Both younger generations can be divided into two distinct groups.  Goneril, Regan and Edmund are the villains in both the plots and Edgar and Cordelia are the loyal, faithful children.  This little twist adds to the effect of the generation

  • The Universal Truths of King Lear

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    is the character most obviously made to suffer.  In the beginning of the drama, Lear is unable to see the good in his daughter Cordelia.  He is so egotistical that when Cordelia explains her love for him is that of a daughter for her father, he becomes enraged.  He desires to hear she loves him more than she could love anyone, ever. Cordelia: Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me, loved me. I return those duties back as are right fit: Obey you, love you, and most

  • Perceptions in Shakespeare's King Lear

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    the banishing of Cordelia after she refuses Lear's test of love.  Another sequence is the gouging of Gloucester's eyes by Cornwall.  A third sequence which shows the indifference of opinion within the characters is Lear's death at the end of the play. As the play opens up, Gloucester and Kent are speaking of Lear's intention to divide his kingdom according to a test of love.  It is this test of love which causes Lear to banish his most beloved daughter Cordelia.  When asked

  • Insanity and the Necessity of Madness in King Lear

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    Lear is initially consumed by what Burton would refer to as the human appetite,[1] and exhibits traits indicative of someone dominated by the choleric humor: he is prideful, yearns for authority, and bullies others when he doesn’t get his way. After Cordelia refuses to dote on him in the first scene, he goes into a fit of rage: Let it be so; the truth then be thy dower… Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, And as a stranger to my heart and me Hold thee from

  • Consider the accuracy of Lear?s claim that he is ?a man / More sinned against than sinning?

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    chasing out of Cordelia by her own father right at the beginning of the play. When Cordelia is asked by Lear to tell him how much she loves him she answers in a way Lear did not expect by not telling him sweet words he liked so much when they were told to him by Goneril and Regan before. She tells him that she loves him like a daughter loves her father and nothing more. Lear gets mad at her and calls for France and Burgundy, to give her to one of them as his wife. Lear disinherits Cordelia and she has

  • Role Reversal in King Lear

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    doing so, they ultimately force their children, Cordelia and Edgar respectively, to take on the roles that they cast off. Lear is a king, but from the beginning of the play he chooses to shun this role. He acts in a manner unbefitting a king by forcing his daughters into a bizarre love contest in front of the entire court, thereby setting into motion a chain of events that bring about his insanity and eventually his death. It is apparent that Cordelia is Lear’s most beloved child for he says "I loved