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King Lear
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Why bastard wherefore base?" asks Edmund. The bitter illegitimate son resents his father and brother. He is determined to
"prosper" and "grow." Ruthlessly, he plays on old Gloucester's weakness and persuades him that Edgar seeks his death to
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... full circle". Gloucester, realising the wrong he has done to Edgar, yet joyful he is alive, dies. Edgar joins
Albany in ruling the country.
So skillfully has Shakespeare intertwined the two plots, beginning in Act II at Gloucester's castle and ending in the alliance
of Edgar and Albany, that is is difficult to separate them. Gloucester, like Lear, suffers from filial ingratitude. It is in his
castle that Lear is humiliated by his daughters and flees into the storm. Gloucester's sympathy helps Lear to Dover to meet
Cordelia, yet leads to his own blindness and his going to Dover for suicide.
Edgar becomes embroiled in the main plo ... |
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