A King is supposed to have all that he needs without having to worry about anything in his late years. Yet King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 2, cried out in pitifully: "I am a man / More sinned against than sinning." Although Lear has made a huge mistake in the first scene of the play in dividing up his kingdom and banishing his two dearest people, the sins his two other ungrateful daughters have done him is far greater than the extent of Lear's wrongs.

After dividing the kingdom, Lear gave everything to his two daughters on the condition that he would keep his title as King, keep his entourage and that he would stay with each daughter for a certain amount of time. Goneril, annoyed with her father's impulsive temper, refuses to put up with him and orders Oswald and all other servants to provoke Lear so she would have a chance to rid of him:

"Put on what weary negligence you please,

You and your fellows. I'd have it come to question." (I, iii, 13-14)

Goneril's act demonstrates her impatience and her revengeful nature as she wanted Lear to suffer from whatever she had to put up with him before. In Act 1, Scene 4, Goneril complains about Lear's impulsive behaviour and co

"A little to disquantity your train,

Kent is one of Lear's most trusted servants. Instead of trying to insult Kent, Cornwall and Regan's main purpose was to challenge the king's authority. They didn't bother to pay the slightest hint of respect to the King. Goneril and Regan have paired up with one another to rebel against his own father, which is opposite to the tradition belief that children should comply with their parents with complete obedience. The final straw came when Lear found out about Kent's imprisonment and was enraged. Regan had told him to return to Goneril and beg for her forgiveness for being impudent. Lear, being tossed around like a ball by his two daughters, becomes even more mad when Goneril arrives at Regan's castle and embraces Regan in the King's presence. Together they question why Lear would need so many knights when their knights would be sufficient to accommodate his needs. Lear enraged said:

Should have him thus restrained." (II, ii, 141-143)

Lear is an old retired king who certainly doesn't deserve to treated in the manner his two ungrateful daughters have done so. Lear might have lacked personal insight in banishing his two most beloved people around him, and lacked self-control and discipline in controlling his temper, but there could be no reason to justify the immoral actions that Goneril and Regan had casted upon them. They dejected, abandonned, hurted and even wanted to kill their own father. To Lear, maybe the thing that hurts him the most is the fact that his two evil daughters are his own flesh and blood. Not only has he been stripped of love, pride and honour, he has also been driven crazy by them. Lear might not have been sinless, yet the faults casted upon him is far greater than what he had wronged.

Oswald oversees the estates for Goneril and is responsible for all servants, and striking him would be an insult to Goneril. Goneril also had every right to ask his knights to behave themselves: his knights might really have been disordered and being the own

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