EDGAR

EDGAR

1. legitimate son of Gloucester

2. Themes that link.

   • Play about Family (the breaking down of familial bonds).
     • Gloucester's readiness to believe Edmund's plot against Edgar, breaking down of the father son relationship.
       • 'i never got him' GLOUCESTER Act 2 Scene 1
   • wealth (riches and poverty) the effect wealth has on people.
     • on the run from his life becoming 'poor Tom' thrown from being the eldest son and heir of Gloucester to a naked beggar
       • 'That's something yet: Edgar I nothing am' Act 2 Scene 3 - Being made to be 'the basest and most poorest shape' means he has the chance of surviving 'no port is free' for Edgar, he has no future yet Poor Tom has a chance.
   • Madness
     • feigns madness, uses it as a cover the contrast between his 'fake' madeness and Lear's actual decent into madness.
   • Justice
     • The injustice served to him from Edmund and Gloucester.
       • 'some villain hath done me wrong' Act 1 Scene 2

3. Best Quotes

   • 'my tears begin to take his part so much, they mar my counterfeiting' Act 3 scene 6
   • 'who alone suffers, suffers most i'th'mind' what Edgar says here links with Lear, who falls into madness rambling on about his daughters, who have caused him to suffer. Furthermore in the 2014 National Theatre production of King Lear, Lear kills the fool believing him to be Goneril. showing that his great suffering is indeed in his mind, becoming his reality.

4. 'Whose nature is so far from doing harms that he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty my practices ride easy!' EDMUND - Act 1 Scene 2