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King Lear Characters
Cards in this deck (11)
- 1Lear-king of Britain
-three daughters
-excessively proud (at first)
-rash and poor judge
-grows in compassion
-dies heartbroken, yet wiser - 2Goneril-Lear's eldest daughter
-wife of Albany
-false
-ruthless
-monstrous
-scornful (contemptuous) - 3Regan-Lear's second daughter
-wife of Cornwall
-false
-ungrateful
-malicious
-rival to Goneril - 4Cordelia-Lear's youngest daughter
-virtuous
-stubborn?
-forgiving
-composed
-compassionate (saintly) - 5Albany-husband of Regan
-weak and dominated (first)
-grows in spirit
-force of goodness (ending) - 6Cornwall-husband of Goneril
-aligns himself with evil
-disloyal and disrespectful
-vicious - 7Gloucester-father to Edmund & Edgar
-morally blind (start)
-gullible
-compassionate and noble
-wisdom through suffering
-parallel to Lear - 8Edgar-Gloucester's full son
-gullible (first)
-optimistic
-uses deception for good
-man of moral integrity
-compassionate - 9Edmund-Gloucester's illegitimate son
-desire for social status and wealth
-clever and cunning
-callous and ruthless
-attempts to redeem? - 10Kent-unwavering loyalty to Lear
-caring towards Lear
-philosophical
-provides important info. for audience - 11The Fool-loyal companion
-guide to discovery for Lear
-insightful
-object of Lear's pity
-disappears mysteriously
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