Edgar Flashcards
From the immediate start of the play we are introduced into the position of Edgar in relation to his illegitimate brother who is a year older than him
‘illegitimate’
‘I have so often brushed to acknowledge him that I am brazed to it’
ACT 1 SCENE 1
Edmund has been shunned away from his father and he is disrespected by his father as he doesn’t acknowledge him as his son
‘there was good sport at his making’
ACT 1 SCENE 1
He was the son of a prostitute
‘through this knave came something saucily into this world before he was sent for’
ACT 1 SCENE 1
Disrespect
‘O villain, villain! His very opinion in this letter! Abhorred Villain! Unnatural , brutish villain! ‘
This deception of Edgar being staged as a villain intrigues us and adds an elemnt of intertes to the play.
How do they use deception and disguise in the play?
Edmund and Edgar, use deception in dramatically different ways, ultimately leading to opposite outcomes.
How does Edmund and Edgar use disguise
Edmund, the illegitimate son of Gloucester, employs deceit for selfish gain, while Edgar, his legitimate brother, uses disguise as a means of survival and justice. Their contrasting uses of deception highlight the moral divide between villainy and virtue, making King Lear a compelling and thought-provoking drama.
Some villain hath done me wrong
Act one scene two
A brother Noble, whose nature is so far from doing harms but he suspects none
What Edmund says about him
Act one scene two
I will preserve myself and am bethought to take the basest most poorest shape that ever penury in contempt of man brought near to beast
Act two scene three
Why I do trifle thus his despair is done to cure it
Act for season six
Men must endure they’re going hence even as they’re coming hither ripeness is all.
Act five, scene two
Remind Gloucester that they must endure the pain of life and the heart ordeal that terminates death
Gloucester must wait till his death
They are traitor false to thy gods thy brother and thy father
Act five, scene three
Draw thy sword
Edmund enter the British camp in Dover ordered Edmund to fight
Act five, scene three
The gods are just and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us, the dark and vicious place where thee he got, cost him his eyes
Edmund suggesting that the gods will punish for illicit love
Act five, scene three
But his floored heart alack to weak the conflict to support- twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief burst smilingly
Act five, scene three
The weight of this sad time we must obey
Act five, scene three
