The 3 daughter's responses

In the play King Lear his three daughters were to make a speech of how much they loved him. Goneril states that she loves him as much as she loves life. She loves him as much as her eyesight, and riches. And more than a child ever love a father. Regan as well began to profess her undying love for her father by stating, that her sister defines her very love, just that she comes too short. And her love for him makes all the other joys enemies to her. And that he is her only love.

While Cordelia states the complete opposite, for at first when asked she has nothing to say, then she says that he love can not heave her heart into her mouth, meaning that she can not speak about her love and compare it. Then she goes on to state that she loves him like a daughter should love her father, and unlike her sister when she is to wed he will not have all of her love but half because she cant marry and he have all her love, because she must love her husband as well.