King Lear Apperance Vr Reality

King Lear Apperance Vr Reality

1. Beginning of the play, Regan and goneril appear to love their father

2. The Fool

   • Speaks truth to Lear
   • Tells Lear where he went wrong
     • "She will taste as like this as a crab does to a crab"
   • Similar to cordelia, Obedient

3. Edmund And Edgar

   • Edmunds Plot to gain power
   • Edgar led to believe that he is a outcast
   • Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land. Our father’s love is to the bastard Edmund As to the legitimate. Fine word—“legitimate”! Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, And my invention thrive, Edmund the base Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper. Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

4. Kent

   • Outcasted, still remains loyal
   • Uses disguise to remain close to Lear

5. Lear

   • Comes to reality half way through
     • "And let not women’s weapons, water-drops, Stain my man’s cheeks! No, you unnatural hags"

6. Glouster

   • Mislead by Edmund
   • Blinded by Cornwall and Regan
     • Only after being blinded does he realise
       • Metaphor