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Act 1, Scene 1

Lear makes the decision to banish Cordelia for not professing her love correctly. Kent calls him out on this and tells him how she is his most beloved daughter and to not act so rashly. Lear takes Kent defending Cordelia as an attack on him. This reveals how fragile Lear's ego is as one criticism of his decision leads him into denouncing his closest friend. It also reveals the insecurity of Lear which conflicts with his own self-presentation as a powerful King who demands respect. In reality Lear is too insecure to receive criticism making him a weak leader and we will see consequences to this as Goneril and Regan push him around. They can see his insecurities and they know they can lead him to his own self-destruction by playing off these insecurities.

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Act 2: Scene 4
Lear goes up against Regan as he is confronted by Regan's loyalty towards Goneril. Regan states that she believes that Goneril has a valid argument for wanting Lear to not hold so much power. However, this stuns and angers Lear because he thought Regan was loyal to him and sided with his argument. This causes Lear to say that Regan is more corrupt than her sister because she supported her sister over her father. -Mei

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Lear's daughters basically threw him away the moment he gave them power. He expected them to take care of him but instead they push him aside - Jesus

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As a result of being in a position of power for an extended period of time, Lear has allowed his ego and self-centered tendencies to consume him. The point where this is most evident is when he forces his 3 daughters to compliment him and tell him how much they love him in exchange for a third of Lear's kingdom (1.1). This reveals that he has become attention-seeking and narcissistic, as he  doesn't value his daughters like he should and instead only wants their affection to make him feel like he is loved. Lear knows deep inside that his time is almost up and is taking it very badly- especially with him voluntarily venturing into a horrible storm.
- Caitlin

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Lear wants to be loved and cared for as he recognizes his own frailty. However, at every turn he has rejected genuine displays of love and attempts to care for him from his daughters because he believes he deserves more than what he gives.

(1.1.98-122; 1.1.225-237)

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Act 3, Scene 4
King Lear refuses to listen to Kent when he advises the King to accept Gloucester's offer to go to his house. The King only listens when his new "philosopher" Edgar is allowed to come along. This reveals that King Lear is very stubborn and will fight until he gets his way. -Carly

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King Lear and Goneril both strive for power and admiration among their peers causing a power struggle between the two. Goneril is commanding and condescending and instructs Oswald to treat Lear in an unpleasant manner. Similarly, Lear banishes Kent in previous scenes exemplifying both individuals strong and cold approach to leadership. While both Goneril and Lear appear to be two opposing clashing sides, they often boil down to being merely two sides of the same coin. - Mark Cole

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This is a reflection on lear's subborness. It is caused by his narcissism which is shown throughout the text. For example, he runs off into a tempest that could threaten his life because he is heartbroken by his daughter's "disobedience". No one wanted him to do that crazy thing, but he did it anyway because he's a narcissist. Act 3 scene 1 lines 5-16
-jacob

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Diego Torres,
Like other, greater (and non-fictional) leaders of the Kingdom of Britain, Lear suffers from a serious lack of self worth, and is blinded by his own attention seeking self. This is the crux of every other argument in the play, where characters take advantage of him for their own nefarious ends- and even Kent manipulates him for Lear's own good. His own lack of awareness serves as a pair of arrows stuck in his eyes, blinding him to the world around him until the fateful moment when he realizes that yes, in fact, he's just given the entirety of his kingdom to two sociopaths.

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Act 1: Scene 1
There is a conflict between Cordelia and Lear when Lear hopes to get praised by his youngest daughter, as did his other daughters. However, when he hears her answer, which doesn't meet his narcissistic standards, he disowns her and revokes her right to one-third of the kingdom. This reveals that Lear is too focused on being praised as a fantastic father and King and doesn't see how someone's actual advice and commentary are more precious than someone who gives you what you want to hear.
-Gavin

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Lear expected that his children would care for him as he aged and relinquished his power, as this was the norm. However, the younger generations in the novel are representative of a societal shift towards individualism that results in a lack of care for the aging Lear. -Charles

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King Lear's pride is crushed when Cordelia refuses to feed his ego by sharing her undying love for her father (Act 1: Scene 1). Cordelia's disobedience caused King Lear to direct his anger towards Cordelia. He disowned her as his daughter and made her no longer an heir to his fortune. King Lear allowed his pride to encourage him to make impulse decisions based on emotions. - Taniyah T

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As the story continues, you can see King Lear descend into madness. A prime example of this is in Act 3, when King Lear ventures into the storm. He claims the storm doesn't affect him as his "Mental Anguish" consumes him because he realizes his daughters do not love him. This leads me to believe that King Lear is losing his battle against his sanity, and if it weren't for the fool and Kent, King Lear would've lost his sanity earlier. Not only has the storm portrayed Lear's mental state, but so have his rash and aggressive decisions toward the ones who genuinely love and care for him, like Cordelia and Kent.

-Kasper J.

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Act 1: Scene 1
Lear desperately seeks for praise from people. He asks his daughters to tell him how much they love him but he is met with Cordelia saying she only loves him as much as a daughter should love her father. This causes Lear's ego to be raised and makes it more complicated for Lear to appreciate things. It also makes him vulnerable for instances like with the Fool who does not praise him but kind of taunts him. - Mei

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Through conversations between the fool and King Lear, the fool continuously attempts to guide King Lear. Through this, it displays how King Lear is very stubborn. Especially when the fool approaches him on how he was stupid for giving his land to his daughters even though they were trying to undermine him, Lear feels like he is loved and respected by all, and nobody would do him wrong. He never saw the fault in his ways of providing his daughters more power because power comes with land.  As the fool continuously tried to remind Lear about this, he still couldn't see the fault in his ways and be too stubborn to realize the fault in his ways and fix it.   Act 1 Scene 4
-Ira

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King Lear vs ego

Lear is so deeply obsessed with himself that he expects everyone around him, especially his daughters, to love him without question. When they do not he goes as far as disowning one due to getting so upset. He is blinded by his need for attention and goes mad when he is denied of it. Act 1 scene 1 through the rest. -MP

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There is love between Cordelia and Lear, but it is unrequited. Lear has become so self-absorbed and insecure about himself that it has caused him to be blinded. He cannot see that Cordelia is the only one of his daughters that really loves him for who he is, and not for his power. However, Lear's low self-worth causes him to constantly seek attention and love, even if it isn't real, because the appearance of being loved is enough for him. Cordelia and Lear's relationship is obliterated after he refuses to pay her dowry, and Lear would rather just give away his former favorite daughter than see her married to a good man (1.1.96-122). Lear only cares about himself and at this point in his life could worry less about his children.
- Caitlin

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When Goneril and Regan had both denied him shelter in their castles he had been angered to the point where he willingly walked into a storm. He had been too stubborn to decrease the amount of soldiers he had. He is too prideful in his self and his status to have anything less than all his attendants. He has been battling his pride the entire story as his pride led him to appoint goneril and regan to take over his kingdom

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(1.4.259-261)
In response to Goneril's suggestion that Lear should reduce the amount of knights he has by half, as a result of their immaturity and failure to demonstrate respect for Lear, Lear responds by expressing his intention to leave Goneril's home. Lear chooses his followers and his belief that having a large amount of knights around the castle is particularly wise, over his daughter. Overall, demonstrating Lear's stubbornness and inability to accept opinions other than his own.
-Sadie Porter

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When King Lear realizes that he made a mistake in giving his kingdom and powers to his daughters Goneril and Regan. He was so grief-stricken by this mistake that he gradually loses touch with reality.

Act 1 Scene 4
Amari W

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In act 1 scene 1 lear is dividing up his kingdom based on which daughters love him most in the words they say to him. This is another testament to his narcissim. Goneril and Regan speak their hollow words of how much they love him, but when cordelia says she loves him as much as he loves her and gives a real answer about love he blows up. He wanted to be praised (his narcissim) but instead he got a realistic answer about his daughters love. She was consequentially banished from the kingdom and lost her stake in the kingdom all because she spoke truth.
-jacob

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King Lear often puts himself on a high pedestal which is initially exemplified by his belief in the idea that he would be taken care of after his retirement. Lear believes himself to be the center of all currently conflict while much more transpires beyond him. Often Lear fails to acknowledge the actions in motion outside of his realm of control and instead only focuses on the issue's he deems most worthy. Through this characterization of Lear it's revealed his lack of attentiveness to bigger picture issues which is exemplified by his stubborn approach to being disobeyed by Goneril. After Goneril demands he reduces the number of knights he has in circulation instead of asserting his dominance he rather decides to pack up and stay and Regan's, exemplifying his own self centered view of the world. - Mark Cole

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Diego Torres
The entirety of their conflict can be scrunched together from Lear's fitful rant after Goneril purges Lear's knights from her castle. Goneril herself has ambitions and goals that require Lear's deposition. While he doesn't act against her at all, she most definitely plots in the darkness, waiting for the time when she can strike, and crown herself queen of Britain, if that's what we're fighting over here; it better not be a plot of land somewhere in Wales.
The entire situation further degrades after Lear flees to Regan's castle, and is equally repulsed.

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Act 3 scene 4

This scene is an example of Lear's ego vs himself because Edgar is introduced in disguise as a mad poor man. And as Lear meets him, he asks Edgar if his daughters were the reason that he was like this, meaning that Lear was relating his situation between him and his daughters and saying that because of how his daughters act, he will go mad and be doomed to be poor and alone. Instead of actually seeing the issue at hand throughout the book which is Lear's inability to respect his daughters wishes of not doing what he wants, he believes that everyone else is in the wrong which shows his ego that he believes that everything that he does is right, and anyone who doesn't do what he wants is an issue.

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Act 1, Scene 1
King Lear asks his daughters to tell him how much they love him when trying to gain their share of his possessions.  Lear is insecure about his parenting and his pride as, due to societies' standards, King Lear is given all the powerful possessions of being old, wealthy, a man, and the literal King. -Carly

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Throughout the book we see how Lear is truly an insecure man. Though he was a king, he would seek approval from others. One of the first examples of this is seen through his treatment of his daughter Cordelia, when she did not profess her love to her father in order to gain a part of the kingdom following his passing. Lear feels the need to be worshiped by others, and when this does not happen he gets very angry, even to the extent that he would banish his own daughter. He thrives off of others accepting him and that is also reflected through his treatment of his guards in act 1. - Kelis

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Lear gave away his power and is forced into a new modern era of his life where no one is necessarily forced to care for him. He does not have power to keep all those in the kingdom in complete subjection. His grip on society is unraveling and he lashes out as a reaction to the rapid changes in his environment.
(1.4.45-86)

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Act 3 Scene 2

In Act 2 Scene 4, King Lear goes up against his two daughters Goneril and Regan as both women will not allow Lear to place his soldiers in their kingdoms. This conflict between the two bubbles up in this scene and Lear is in absolute shock that his daughters would treat him this way, so much that he curses them, and even wishes for the storm to strike both of them down in later scenes for being ungrateful for all that he's given them. This conflict between the three shows that Lear feels entitled to care and worship from his daughters, yet since they will not give him everything that he wants, he acts without rationale or basic thought and wishes the worst on them, showing his nature of self entitlement.

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King Lear vs Generational change - Amari May

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King Lear vs Generational change - Amari May

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Act 1 Scenes 1-3

In this Act, King Lear makes his three daughters pledge their love and adoration for him, because if they do they will gain his kingdom. However, Cordelia tells him that she doesn't have to explain her love for him as her actions speak louder than her words. While Goneril and Regan who preach their love for their father actually are working together behind his back to take all of his land. Lear only rewards Goneril and Regan because they worship him just as he asks them to. This shows the generational belief that older people believe that they should be worshiped, taken care of, and praised by younger generations simply because of their age. And by Lear giving Cordelia nothing, it shows the new generational ideas battling the older ones as Cordelia represents the new generation idea that respect is earned, and should be something understood and mutual between two people rather than just giving or saying it to older generations because they're older.

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King Lear experiences several instances where he faces opposition. His conflict with one of his eldest daughters, Goneril (Act 1: Scene 3). King Lear recently divided his kingdom between his two eldest daughters, Goneril and Regan. His intentions were to retire from the crown, in a sense, and live his retirement having his daughters take care of him. However, Goneril and Regan have other plans as they secretly plot to take the crown from the King. In doing so, the first phase of their mischievous plans include Goneril making King Lear's stay at her castle an unpleasant stay. She proclaims to her steward that King lear is an Obnoxious guest and orders her servants to be rude to the King and his attendants.  - Taniyah T

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Lear's narcissism is slowly destroying the relationships with those around him, starting with Cordelia and Kent, as seen in Act 1, scene 1. He believes everyone should love and revere him as a fantastic King but is too blind to see what is right in front of him. Because he is too blind, he does not know he is being betrayed by his daughters, destroying him even more when he finds out. If he had put his pride down and listened to those around him, he would have been more prepared, which means he could have collected himself together faster. Since he is so focused on self-pity, he cannot fulfill his duties as a father and a King, making him look even more incompetent.

- Gavin

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King Lear is shown to be a stubborn old man who has everything he wants except his daughters love; however, King Lear believes that his daughters should love him unconditionally because he is one, their King and two, their father. He doesn't need to work for anything and throws a tantrum when he doesn't get the answers he wants. He banishes the people that oppose his reality. Those people tend to be the ones that genuinely care for him.

Edmund is completely different from Lear. Edmund is the bastard son of Gloucester and his brother Edgar is the heir to their family. Edmund is pushed away by his father; however, he wants to become heir to their family so he betrays his brother Edgar. This shows the difference between the two. Edmund is active and needs to work hard and play risky in order to get what he wants; whereas, Lear simply expects things to work as he wants because he is king.

-Kasper J.

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(1.4.120-130; 1.4.144-154)

King Lear hears the advice of the Fool and either ignores it entirely or becomes overly angry at the truth of the Fool's words. This further shows how self-centered and ignorant King Lear is to anyone acting out side of his preconceived way of the world

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Leer seems to have a self-conflict with himself. Leer always needs to be praised to the highest level and degree, creating a God Complex. This was shown when he was shocked when Cordelia approached him and only stated how she only loved him as a father. This response does not align with this large ego. When people don't adore him and don't revolve his world around affects him. Act 1 Scene 1
-Ira

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Lear expects society to bend at his will at any chance he decides it needs to when in actuality many people are apathetic towards his cause. For example, when Goneril asks him to get rid of some of his knights his reaction is to have a temper tantrum and storm off to Regan's. Lear so often fails to acknowledge that he is no longer the supreme lord of the land and often expects similar respect without the same responsibilities. - Mark Cole

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Diego Torres
More than something written about in Shakespeare's works: modernist family thinking evolved during the Victorian era, where- surprisingly- the quality of living increased. This viewpoint is reflected in King Lear.
Modernist family thinking- modern by their standards, btw- espoused the disassembling of the patriarchy, and establishing an equal playing field for all sexes. Unfortunately for Lear, he's going to be the victim of modernization, and not everyone can keep up with it....

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Beginning in Act 1, we see that Lear and his daughter has conflict when she refuses be like her other sisters and told her truth to Lear, and this makes him very mad at her.

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When Lear was offering up his kingdom to his 3 daughters he had asked them to confess his love to them. He had banished Cordelia for telling the truth about how she felt about him. Lear had believed Cordelia to be his adversary and thought she was against him. He thought her to be his favorite child but quickly changed just because she wouldn't bolster his ego

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Lear's advisors and family can easily see that he is losing his sanity. They allow him to believe that he is in control, but in reality there are others behind the scenes. Especially in Act 3 Scene 3, when Gloucester discusses with Edmund about the French being present and spying on Lear's kingdom, Lear is in the woods at this point and is not informed about the French (3.3.1-26). Gloucester also mentions that he will join the King's side, while Edmund is set to reveal Gloucester's plans. Lear's loss of sanity and self-centered tendencies have led his advisors to begin manipulating him. Lear can also be seen as a metaphor for the patriarchy, and in this sense the patriarchy can be interpreted as growing weaker and not being sustainable.
- Caitlin

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Lear in the text can be perceived as a symbol for the patriarchy. So for the author to show that the patriarchy is dying they make lear a weak charcter. Lear is always fighting against a changing society. Now his daughters have more power than him and are manipulating him. Not only does it show that the patriarchy is weak and that it is going away, but it is also a commentary on age. No longer do old people get the respect and power that they are used to and lear is struggling to understand and cope with that.
-jacob

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Lear makes a show of how much he believes himself to have been wronged by running out into a storm rather than staying at his daughters' houses. Lear believes himself to be a victim of the power that he endowed his daughters with. He acts like a tragic hero, wronged by the world, when as Edmund said in Act 1, Scene 2, his sorry state was caused by his own actions. His self-pity is so damaging that it threatens his very life as he dramatically endures weather that could cause illness. -Charles

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Act 1, Scene 4
Goneril confronts Lear about his knights which makes Lear outraged. Goneril states that Lear is old and doesn't need this many knights, which defies societies standards of the elderly being wise and in power and this angers Lear as he is being "disrespected" by Goneril. -Carly

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Act 1 scene 2.
Lear's daughters, Regan and Goneril, both believe that their father is too old and his old age makes him incompetent to fulfill his duties. The generational differences between the daughters and Lear show how the younger generation at the time views the competency of the old and how there is an age where you should step down. However, this works both ways. Lear believes his daughters should take care of and respect him. This conflict influences other conflicts, such as Lear vs. Cordelia and how he expects her to respond to him a certain way.
- Gavin

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Act 1, Scene 1
During the entire Act 1, Scene 1, Lear is attempting to divide up his kingdom among his daughters, based on how much they declare their love for him. This act effectively deprives Lear of holding on to his power and influence in the kingdom, forcing him to depend on his daughters to take care of him and provide him with shelter. Lear is forced to move between his daughters and move out when their beliefs are not aligned with his own, demonstrating his lack of security and stability. Given that his choice to divide his kingdom was a contributor to Lear's lack of stability, Lear himself has had a role in his own situation.
-Sadie Porter

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Act 1, Scene 4

King Lear consistently lets his own self-importance get in the way of him realizing how he has been manipulated. The fool tells him in a variety of ways how both his daughters are lying to him, how Cordelia is the one who truly loves him. The fool tells him with humor however, King Lear brushes all of these truths off. He brushes these truths off because he sees the fool as beneath him, he is just some dumb fool and King Lear is powerful and intelligent. King Lear by putting himself on a pedestal prohibits himself from realizing his life is falling apart and he is being betrayed by the people he trusts most.

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King Lear is faced with the declining strength of his family bond and dynamic (Act 1; Scene 3-5 and Act 2: Scene 2). King Lear is used to what society tells him what he can do and how he's perceived. He has this egocentric, narcissistic complex because of who is and represents in society. So when his family dynamic and bond is slowly breaking apart due to his daughters' ill treatment, defiance, and disobedience, King Lear is unsure of how to handle this situation - Taniyah T

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During Lear's time as king he did not realize how un-liked he was. He was in such a high position of power because he was a man,old, and king, but when he split his land into 3 he gave away his power. This in turned gave away his respect but king Lear is so self absorbed he couldn't fathom others not respecting him. When reagan would not allow him to stay with her it was the final straw and he finally realized that he was not respected by all.

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Lear can't stand the fact that Goneril is acting controlling towards Lear. A lot of this conflict comes from his outdated perceptions of society. The conflict exists because of Lear's belief that a child should respect their parents, and that women are inferior to men. In Act 1, Scene 4, Lear curses Goneril after she tells him to get rid of half his knights, wishing infertility on her. This conflict, therefore, is directly related to Goneril being a woman. She is too gaslight gatekeep girlboss for him to handle. -Charles

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Charles Foote - King Lear vs primogeniture 

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Charles Foote - King Lear vs primogeniture 

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King Lear has been abiding by societal norms by passing down his kingdom too his daughters and because of this he expected to still be treated essentially like a king because his age, status and pride. When his 2 daughters didn't offer him this treatment he didn't know what to do with this new reality. He had never though this idea that he would lose his status would become reality. He responded to this in anger and rash decisions.

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Lear allowed his time as king to get to his head which ended up leading to his downfall. When his daughters were confessing their love for him, he took back his wealth from the daughter that was honest with him and instead divided it up between the two daughters that just lied to him in order to feed his ego. ~ JoeRon Skinner

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Kelis
Act 3: Scene 2
In this scene we see how King Lear has so many external conflict you really see that he has become one of his greatest enemy for the way he treats people as a whole, and though he is surrounded by many he is still very alone

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Lear struggles with accepting his place as an elder in society. Society views him as aging and going crazy and this leads him to actually going crazy. He is struggling to beat off the implications that he can't handle himself or his knights, Goneril and Regan wanting to take his knights show they see him as lesser than he was. He resents them for this and fights tooth and nail to prove them wrong evident in him walking into the storm, in the attempt to fight against these social norms he only falls more deeply into them. He seems crazier and of less sound mind in his attempts to disprove those very things.

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Act 2, Scene 4, Pages 63-64
When Lear is in the presence of Goneril and Regan and trying to stay with Regan, he is shocked and angered when Regan informs him that she will not let his 50 knights stay with her and her husband. Lear expects Regan to greet him openly and willing accommodate all of his wants, without exception. Demonstrating Lear's feeling on entitlement as an elderly King and their father. In response, Lear returns to Goneril where he can keep more of his knights, showing how Lear expects his daughters to conform to the Victorian belief that age = respect, but as his daughters openly ignore that ideal his response is only anger.
- Sadie Porter

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King Lear has always been very oblivious to reality and how others actually view him. He is very gullible and this is evident when reagan and gordelia confess their love for him, he is so blinded by his pride that he cannot see that they actually do not feel that way about him. He loves to hear others praise him and dosen't even think whether or it's true. Cordelia is the only sister who is honest but she didn't state that she loves him more than anything and this enrages him. instead evaluating her love for him he just did not like that she was not infatuated with him and he lashes out.

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King Leer didn't birth a son, which is very uncommon for many monarchies since kings are supposed to pass their kingdom to their sons. with his not having a son and only daughters, this put the future of his kingdom in jeopardy.

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All of the play so far, Lear has been going up against his daughters and experiencing unknown difficulties that men usually do not experience, especially from his children. Due to the fact that all if his children are female, Lear has to give up his power, eventually, to a female heir. This means the patriarchal thrown would be dismantled. In addition, Lear has the belief system of male praise, seen with him wanting his children to tell him how much they love him. This leads to him having an issue with wanting women to not have as much power. Such an instance would be the division of power among his children. Despite Lear wanting to give his power to his three daughters, he still wants to hold power himself even though he said he would relinquish it and have his children take care of him. This demonstrates his conflict with patriarchal influences and the fall of the patriarchy. - Mei