In King Lear the idea of ​​family relationships is explored through parent-child relationships seen through Lear and his daughter and Gloucester and his sons. Shakespeare explores how the decisions made by both Lear and Gloucester lead to the breakdown of their family relationships. Through misunderstandings, lies and deception, these families experience the effects of isolation. There is also the aspect of how families are kept together, explored through Cordelia's love for Lear and Edger's love for his father Gloucester. In Shakespeare's King Lear, the relationship between Lear and his daughter is centered. In the open act, a test of love created by Lear is addressed to Cordelia to justify the gift of a greater portion of his wealth and lands. However, Lear expects Cordelia to provide him with enormous amounts of flattery and confessions of love, and when she responds with a more tempered response, Lear's indignation becomes evident. "Good my lord, / You begot me, you raised me, you loved me: / I return those duties as they are right, / I obey you, I love you and above all I honor you / For my sisters have husbands, if they say / They love you all ? / Perhaps, when I marry. / That gentleman whose hand must take my situation will take with him / half of my love, half of my care and my duties: / Of course, I will never marry like my sister, to love all my father" (1.1.95) With the misreading of For Cordelia's devotion, Lear renounces his "parental care" (1.1.113) and withdraws his "father's heart" (1.1.127). Lear further banishes Cordelia and divides the inheritance between her sisters. It is at this point that the breakdown in the parent-child relationship between Lear and his daughter Cordelia becomes evident. As well as... middle of the paper... reconnecting with Edgar and apologizing, while the same can be seen through Edgar taking care of Gloucester even after everything. Through this the ability that family relationships have to keep families together is visible and represented. The parent-child relationships explored in King Lear are parallel. Both Lear and Gloucester are seen to face situations in which they do not think rationally, causing them to disown or betray the children they have built relationships with and the children who have true love for their father. It has been seen that the false words of children who love less are the cause of their ruin and, ultimately, of the breakdown of family relationships. In King Lear there are many aspects that highlight how family relationships keep each other apart, but also how the love of some family relationships keeps others together..