In act 5, the assigned scenes, the overall tone or mood is unexpected, dismal and relentlessly gloomy. Although, Cordelia who had just been reunited with Lear, her father, which gives the audience a sliver of hope and justice; Shakespear than rips the carpet right from under his readers, by writing that Cordelia loses the battle against her evil sisters, Goneril and Regan,who fought alongside Edmund and Albany. To make matters worse, Cordelia and Lear are then captured and have been taken as prisoners, and await their fate which appears pretty dismal. These events in the scenes can be also argued to be unexpected, an example is when Reagan announces she is feeling strangely sick. She then has to be escorted back to her tent; Goneril watches