During Jeffrey Kluger’s TED Talk, he talked a lot about how, besides the parents’, strong sibling bonds are and about how this relationship can vary depending on when the sibling was born; that is first, second or third born etc. He even said that siblings always stay with you no matter where you are. He proves himself by using him and his siblings and how one can depend on siblings to get through unhappy times. Siblings can also keep you company when you need one. He even mentioned how having sibling bonds can give each other more strength than an individual can have. Siblings support each other, help each other through difficult times just as Kluger said. Kluger also talked about how parents would usually favor one child over the other. This leads to the less favoured child to try twice as hard as the more favoured child for parents’ attention. He even said that siblings have their own private times together and they also have conversations that they want to keep to themselves.
However, I think a very relevant comparison with King Lear involves the breaking up of a relationship. Kluger states, “Brothers and sisters aren't the sine qua non of a happy life; plenty of adult sibling relationships are fatally broken and need to be abandoned for the sanity of everybody involved” (Kluger). After King Lear has disowned Cordelia, and Goneril and Regan have spoken rudely to Cordelia, Cordelia replies, “Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides, / Who covers faults, at last with shame derides” (1.1.282-283). Here Cordelia sees through her sisters’ plan, which will eventually be born out in the long term. Even though what she says leaves a broken relationship with her sisters, she nevertheless expresses her opinion. On the other hand, Kluger mentions another significant point about siblings, which is, “Siblings teach each other conflict avoidance and conflict resolution, when to stand up for themselves, when to stand down; they learn love, loyalty, honesty, sharing, caring, compromise, the disclosure of secrets and much more important, the keeping of confidences” (Kluger). Likewise, in King Lear, Goneril and Regan work together, supporting each other: “Pray you, let’s sit together. If our / father carry authority with such disposition as he bears, / this last surrender of his will but offend us” (1.1.304-306). Even though Lear is Goneril and Regan’s father, they think ill of their father as they sat down together to complain about their father acting like he’s still in charge of the whole country.
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