Q. Consider the idea that Edmund is an attractive villain?

early 1600’s. One of these plays “King Lear” tells the story of a

King with 3 daughters and an Earl with 2 sons 1 legitimate and 1 illegitimate.

Edmund the younger son is said to be an attractive villain.

Attractive and villain are very different things, but as the

play progresses we see that Edmund uses these to his advantage.

Edmund is a manipulator. This is because he his very bitter about being an

illegitimate child. He feels that it is very unfair that his legitimate brother Edgar

will inherit his father’s wealth over him.

This is because the play is set in pre-Christian Britain and during this time in

history people believed that the gods controlled everything including

peoples fortunes. Edmund is said to be at the bottom of the wheel of fortune and

he longs to be at the top of the wheel so he formulates a plan to get him

all the good fortune he wants and needs the thing about Edmund is that he

and we will hardly be able to believe that he will become the villain within the

(People thinking their thoughts aloud.) We understand his motives we may

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