Gloucester

Gloucester

1. "pluck out his eyes"

2. gained insight through blindness

   • Blindness was a form of punishment for his moral blindness, being gullible and not recognising the righteous from the evil
   • Punishment for adultery and conceiving his bastard son out of wedlock which has led to the evil in his life

3. Staging Punishment, 1580 - 1800 (James Robert Allard)

   • England during when Shakespeare was writing, blinding had legendary associations with punishments for adultery (Robert James)