king lear

Main Point 1: King Lear and Gloucester embrace their disloyal children.
Example 1: Lear gives the land to Goneril and Regan
Quote 1: Lear says to Goneril, “Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, with shadowy forests and with champains riched, with plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads, we make thee lady” (act1scene1ll:62-65)

Quote2: “To thee and thine hereditary ever remain this ample third of our fair kingdom, no less in space, validity, and pleasure than that conferred on Goneril”(act1sc1ll78-81)

Example 2: Gloucester believes that Edgar is trying to kill him
Quote 1: “You know the character to be your brother’s?”(act1sc2l:61)
“Has he never before sounded you in this business”(act1sc2l:66)
“He cannot be such a monster- to his father, that so tenderly and entirely loves him” (act1sc2ll:90-92)

Quote 2: speaking about Edgar, “O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, bruti...