"Let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks!" King Lear Act 2 Scene 4
I found this quote from King Lear very amusing actually. It illustrated the sexist attitude of the time, that to cry was see n as a weakness and therefore, utterly feminine. Also the fact that Lear sees crying as a weapon women use means that he equates women as being manipulative. That when a woman cries she does it to attain an end. There is no true emotion in her weeping rather there is just a conniving force of want that makes the water pour from her eyes. I think Lear sees Cordelia as an enemy not only because of how she responded to his challenge of expressing love for him the best but also because she has the most power over him. He recognizes that when he sees that she has the power to make him cry... an unmanly emotion.
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