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Malik Al-Mahrouky 12JRb Candidate Number: 0001 Centre Number: 34703 Describe the Representation of women through the play, King Lear. Representation of women in King Lear can be looked at from a variety of perspectives: as a play of patriarchy, of rejection and madness, a feminist interpretation but ultimately, a play of tragedy and despair. Shakespeare's description of women through King Lear imputes the distinct seperation between what should and what shouldn't from perspectives of both a Shakespearean audience and that of a modern audience chiefly through the contribution of Lear's distinguishably individualised daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. All three 'women' devise the representation of what should (Cordelia), what could (Regan), and what wouldn't (Goneril) have been acknowledged as the traditional expectation of a woman essentially established through the three daughters signifying purity, rivalry and callousness. Primarily from Act One Scene One, Regan establishes herself as a bitter, opportunistic...

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