Gloucester

Amidst his mad ramblings to Gloucester and Edgar, Lear stumbles upon a fundamental legal problem: law is subjective and only truly favors those in positions of power. In Act IV scene 6, Lear rebukes Gloucester’s hypocrisy, “Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thy own back. / Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind / For which thou whip’st her. The user hangs the cozener” (161-163). It’s unfair that the woman should suffer alone given that Gloucester also wanted to engage with her. Lear points…

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only thinking of himself, rarely fulfills his duty to his father, or to himself in general. When Edmund told Gloucester "It is his hand, my lord, but I hope his hear is not in the contents", Edmund knew very well that this was not doing his duty towards his brother(SparkNotes 1.2.65). Family is supposed to…

blind father was deceived by his bastard son into giving him his power and title. Most people believe that good things happen to good people, yet these expectations were not met within this story. The different interactions that King Lear, Kent, and Gloucester have with divinity, depend entirely on the situations where fate had placed them in, whether such situations were fortunate or unfortunate.…

Gloucester asks Edmund, “We must incline to the King. I will look him and privily / relieve him. Go you and maintain talk with the / Duke, that my charity be not of him perceived. If he / asks for me, I am ill and gone to bed” (Shakespeare 135). Gloucester uses traditional assumptions toward family relationships with his son so that he can help King Lear. He trusts his son not to tell the Duke of Cornwall his plans to help Lear, but Gloucester is mistaken because that is…

fools and madmen” (Shakespeare 3.4). The king, at this point, is also wise in being mad as he finally starts to understand his own folly. In a similar fashion, while Edgar is pretending to be mad, Gloucester father comes to him blind—a situation that parallel’s Lear’s madness in that it allows Gloucester to see the world truly—and eventually Edgar’s façade of madness starts to fade away. He says in an aside, “I cannot daub it farther” (Shakespeare 4.1). Meaning that he is unsure if he can…

that King Lear’s pride has affected his decision-making as he banishes his most loyal subsidiary after warning him to not disown Cordelia. Furthermore, in the sub-plot of “King Lear” scenes of pride are demonstrated when the earl of Lear called Gloucester, is approached by his bastard son with a forged letter supposedly composed by his innocent elder son.…

courtesy, dues of gratitude” (2.2.367-8). These natural debts owed to Lear and Gloucester are ignored by their offspring and subsequently their worlds begin to dissolve into confusion. When Gloucester laments the state of affairs in the court as he says “The King falls from bias of nature”, he observes something wrong with nature that is beginning to cause his world to dissolve into chaos and brutality (1.2.111). Gloucester and Lear’s nature is a state of peace imposed by family and bonds of…

In the play, King Lear, the concept of betrayal leads to ultimate despair and the downfall of characters. Multiple forms of betrayal are displayed in the text. These betrayals in the play lead to agony and misfortune. Through these acts, it is shown that betrayal leads to death. The treasonous actions of Goneril and Regan contribute to pushing their father to madness. The confessing of fake love to their father manipulate Lear into believing he has their undecided affection and trust. Lear…

Strong bonds between people take years to build but then can be destroyed in seconds. In King Lear, readers can see various bonds breaking throughout the duration of the play. One of the reasons for these particular bonds being broken is the cold hard truth, when characters hear things they do not want to hear they become angry which causes problems in relationships. Second, insecurity is a main cause of what causes relationships to break. In King Lear when characters are insecure about…