... their relationship with their children. Eyre's opening scene establishes the potential of this conflict. Gloucester's conversation with Kent about his "whoreson" is overlaid by Edmund's resentful soliloquy. As Gloucester callously jokes about the "good sport as his making", the voice over soliloquy conveys the damaging psychological impact of this insensitivity on Edmund. His repeated rhetorical question "Why bastard? Wherefore base?" reflects ... ...

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