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Summary. Analysis. Edmund stands alone on stage, criticizing the injustice of the laws and customs that deprive him of all legal rights just because he was born out of wedlock. Therefore, Edmund says, rather than law he worships "Nature" (1.2.1). Then, holding up a letter he has forged, Edmund explains to the audience that he is plotting to ...
Analysis: Act 1, scenes 1–2. The love test at the beginning of Act 1, scene 1, sets the tone for this extremely complicated play, which is full of emotional subtlety, conspiracy, and double-talk, and which swings between confusing extremes of love and anger. Lear’s demand that his daughters express how much they love him is puzzling and ...
Commentary. Edmund’s opening soliloquy at the beginning of Act I Scene 2 shows the reasoning of the discontented malcontent. His last line also reveals his defiance: Now gods stand up for bastards (line 22). However, we quickly realise that Edmund does not need the gods to help him. He is a master manipulator and a fine actor, who takes his ...
The subject of Lear’s followers proves to be his undoing, as we suspected it might be when Goneril complained about them in Act I Scene 4. To the beleaguered king his followers represent himself: his status, dignity, authority. In other words, they represent Lear as he was. By reducing their number, Goneril and Regan show their father that he ...
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Analysis: Act 2, scenes 1–2. Edmund’s clever scheming to get rid of Edgar shows his cunning and his immorality. His ability to manipulate people calls to mind arguably the greatest of Shakespeare’s villains, Iago, from Othello, who demonstrates a similar capacity for twisting others to serve his own ends.
