Goneril

[ gon-er-il ]

noun
  1. (in Shakespeare's King Lear) the elder of Lear's two faithless daughters.

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How to use Goneril in a sentence

  • King Lear becomes Lear texting “okay who wants a kingdom,” to which Goneril replies “me me I do.”

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  • By way of episodes the characteristic themes of Regan and Goneril, and then—a second subject—Cordelia, calm and tender.

  • Goneril's steward appears, and behaves rudely to Lear, for which Kent knocks him down.

  • But Regan says she will receive him only with twenty-five and then Lear makes up his mind to go back to Goneril who admits fifty.

  • Goneril is glad but already anticipates with fear that Regan, now a widow, will deprive her of Edmund.

  • Edmund leaves, and a conversation takes place between Goneril and her husband.