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The document provides context and key details about characters and plot points in King Lear: 1) It includes a character map identifying the main characters like Lear, his daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, and noblemen like Gloucester and his sons Edgar and Edmund. 2) It summarizes some of the key events in Act 1, including Lear dividing his kingdom, disowning Cordelia, and beginning to realize his daughters do not truly love him. 3) It also outlines Edmund's plot to displace his brother Edgar and manipulate their father Gloucester in Act 1.

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The document provides context and key details about characters and plot points in King Lear: 1) It includes a character map identifying the main characters like Lear, his daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, and noblemen like Gloucester and his sons Edgar and Edmund. 2) It summarizes some of the key events in Act 1, including Lear dividing his kingdom, disowning Cordelia, and beginning to realize his daughters do not truly love him. 3) It also outlines Edmund's plot to displace his brother Edgar and manipulate their father Gloucester in Act 1.

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Character

map

earl of cordelia loyal one


Glocester youngest daughter
noblemen of tear
T Goneril
I
father k i n eldest daughter
g 0 of tear
T L e a r
D forbidden
Edgar lovers
Gloucester's native eamina
legitimate son regan Gloucester's
middle
of leardaughter Bastard
forbidden
lovers
King lear
actones due test

goneril t regan get a quarter


of land t cordellas quarter

Cordelia refuses to do a love speech my love is richer


then mytongue

lear disowns cordelia t kent gets banished


burgandy decides to not marry cordelia
because of this

Cordelia speaks up to her sisters I know you what


you are t love well our father
Cordelia t france new husband

lear is getting old t everyone is realising this

Memes family fame aging t order

ceyquotes
which of you shall we say doth love us most tear

Sir I love you more then words can well d the


matter goneril

here I disclaim all my paternal care tear

we must do something and I the heat goneril


King lear
act one scene two

edmund plans to displace his legitimate brother edgar

then pretends he had a letter written by edgar to portray him


edmund finds out about the letter and feels that him being
legitimate or bastard has ruined his life
edmund manipulates his father

glocester doesnt understand his son trusting and


loves his sons implicity

cey quotes
now gods stand up for the bastards

well then legitimate edgar I must have your land

thou nature art my goddess


the conousity of nations to deprive me for
mat I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
ag of a brother
King lear
act one scene 3

gonerildoesnt like lear and his knights staying with her

she tells her servent that if tear askes where she is


tell him that shes sick

goneril turns to lies rudeness and has no respect for her


cey quotes
still would manage those authorities that would
Y'eg ednmaanwath.at

thy master whom thou 1001st

act 1 scene 4

Kent entres as a disguise to stay near tear

into tears surface


HatsPa emof's way
tears fool is againt all of this and
redicules tear for giving up his crown
lear leaves goneril after the fight and
went to regan

the tool demonstrates the value of foolishness or


madness turns the order of things upside down

mocks tear
King lear
act one scene five

lear tears fool and Kent still in discise

lear sends kent to giocester with a letter


fool predicts regan will treat lear better then goneril would

but regan feels the same way as goneril

lear worries about going mad


O let me not be mad sweet heaven keep me in temper
I would not be mad

Shakespear uses letters in this scene for dramatic symbolic


purposes
tear trusts too easily because people tell him what he
wants to hear

lear foreshadows his own descent into madness while


similtaniously signaling that his self awareness is
growing
act two scene one at glocesters castle

edmund curren viscously gossip about Cornwall albany's


feud

giocester is ready to arrest Edgar which fits with


edmunds plan

edmund convinces edgar to pretend fight with him because


there father is coming

edmund then pretends edgar tried to murder him after


cutting himself
The Kingdom's political upheaval is in full effect

pardon me in cunning I must draw my sword apon you


English
to make this creature fruitful
Into her womb convey sterilty
Dry up in her the organs of increase
And from her derogate body never spring
create her child of spleen that it may live
And be a thwart disnatured torment to her

who is it that can tell me who I am

come better who I am

titles thou has given away that thou wast born


affyther
this is not altogether fool my lord
tears Shadow

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