A charactor study of Cordelia from Shakespeare's KING LEAR

Her Role: ·Was she there as an angel-like character who made the distinction between good and evil more visible? ·Was she just thrown in as a little goody- goody that did no wrong, and maybe, to some degree, we were supposed to despise? ·Or was she there to make us more aware of a crumbling society where many things were opposite to what one might think it should be, with evil generally prevailing over the …

…to adult choice and commitment. Lear's banishment of Cordelia could be said to actually block her path to marriage as she has no permission from her father. This theory is based also on the fact that Lear makes clear to Cordelia's potential husbands that she is poor and that they should go for one of his other daughters - blatantly putting an immediate stop to her wedding plans and ultimately on her transition into independence.