Edmund Quotes

Question 1

A1.S2: Edmund’s ambition to subvert the natural order - seems to have an obsession with his own illegitimacy.

Answer 1

‘Edmund the base, shall top th’ legitimate. I grow; I prosper. Now, gods, stand up for bastards!’

Question 2

A3.S3: Ominous end to soliloquy. Edmund announces his plans to topple his father and take over.

Answer 2

‘The younger rises when the old doth fall’.

Question 3

A5.S1: Edmund revels in the power and control he has over Goneril and Regan. Using rhetorical questions like he’s toying with the idea.

Answer 3

‘Which of them shall I take?

Both? One? or neither?’

Question 4

A5.S3: On the brink of death Edmund reflects on his journey on the wheel of fortune.

Answer 4

‘The wheel is come full circle; I am here’.

Question 5

A5.S3: Edmund tries to do some good one last time.

Answer 5

‘And shall perchance do good’ - trying to stop killing of Lear and Cordelia.