oh daddy you're the best.

Cordelia and Lear have the relationship that most girls have with their fathers. They love each other because they are supposed to, but it is still genuine. Cordelia knows she is adored by her father and wants to express this to him as honestly as possible. But considering her father is so crazy obsessive with himself and his pride, he cant see past her lack of words to her love. He thinks that if she really loves him she should be able to say all the things she means, because everyone else does. But what he doesn’t realize is that no one else actually loves him and that is why they can say all those great things about him.

When people want something, especially someone like the other sisters, they will do anything they can to make sure it happens. People act out of their own self interest. They aren’t thinking about their father and his feelings or pride, they are thinking about what they can get out of him, and that is why they do not have a hard time lying to him. Lying comes naturally to a person who is that desperate and power hungry.

Everyone ‘plays the game.’ Even if you are just changing the tone of your voice, or the wording of a question to get what you want you are playing the game. If I know that if I yell something I wont get what I want, I will speak in a calm voice. Something as simple as that is playing the game. At least that’s what I would consider to be playing the game. Everyone also loses the game at some point because if they are talking to you like that, and tell you what you want to hear, you are of course going to give into it. Its human tendency.