The connection I am going to make is between King Lear and his daughters and Lucille Bluth and her children in Arrested Development. It may be a stretch, but in the show, the children are frequently trying to suck up to their mother in order to gain control of the company which changes administration frequently. Michael Bluth is probably the only competent sibling, but he has too much sense to shamelessly try to please his mother like his brothers and sister do. In this way, he relates to Cordelia who refused to drench her father in mindless praise just because he asked her to. Lucille is very quick to become angry at her children and quickly becomes enchanted with another and gives them power over the company. This shows her likeness to the king because both are very quick to act and react, sometimes (most of the time) irrationally. Both characters are quite selfish and spoil themselves. They are both rather shallow and neither of them is very thoughtful.
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