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King Lear: topic #2, revision. Matt Diggs III "Lear: Be your tears wet? Yes faith, I pray weep not. If you have poison for me, I will drink it. I know you do not love me; for your sisters Have (as I do remember) done me wrong. You have some cause, they have not. Cordelia: No cause, no cause." In Shakespeare's King Lear the character Cordelia is disowned and denied dowry because she is unable to …

…her last line (V,iii,7), Cordelia speaks of "these sisters," as though they were of no relation to her. She is, in fact, largely a matter of function, helping Lear to see his evil, and keeping him from harm as long as she is able. Her's is a morality for morality's sake. The reward for her sacrifice, had Shakespeare intended one, lies in the viewer's and in Lear's knowledge that good, however rare, does exist.