Plot vs Subplot
I feel that there is a great resemblance between father/children plots in this story. Some of the areas where I see the resemblance is how each father lost trust of their child who loved them the most and that each father also trusted the child or children who did not love them. I also see similarities in the fact that the prompt mentioned how King Lear was losing his eyesight and Gloucester literally lost his eyes. To basically summarize King Lear asked his daughters who loved him the most and while two of his daughters lied to him to receive the most inheritance his one daughter remained silent and was then excommunicated by King lear. The summary of what happened to Gloucester is his bastard son came up with a lie that his legitimate son was trying to kill him as a plot for the bastard son to get his inheritance. Gloucester set out to kill his legitimate son as he had been tricked into thinking that he was trying to kill him. The funny part about both of these stories is that things are not always as they seem as Gloucester's legitimate son Edgar loved him the most out of all his children and King Lear's daughter who would not lie about her love of him actually loved him the most.
