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p. He is willing to be treated as a king by his daughters and is deeply offended when they do not give him the respect he feels is his due. He is owed a level of respect as a father, and his older daughters fail miserably at giving him this degree of respect. He is not owed respect as a king any longer because he has abdicated his responsibilities. This is what Lear did not understand about Cordelia's answer to him w

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