... follow through Goneril and Regan's actions is captured through Shakespeare's use of imagery and diction in "This tempest in my mindfilial ingratitude," symbolising the breaking of family ties. This is further highlighted in the irony in "I gave you all" in reference to the division of the kingdom, demonstrating the Jacobean's perception of Lear's foolishness in equating material items with love. Shakespeare explores ... of stage directions, "storm still" and "storm and tempest" uses pathetic fallacy to highlight how chaos has overthrown order within the kingdom. The notion of fate and d...

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... , Edgar, from his bastard son, Edmund. Edmund connives to set Edgar up, claiming that Edgar is planning on murdering Gloucester; if Edgar is out of Gloucester's favor, Edmund will be the sole heir. Upon learning of Edgar's plan, Gloucester is livid, proclaiming that Edgar is an "abhorred villain, unnatural, detested, brutish villain; worse than brutish!" Gloucester immediately trusts Edmund's account, ... Edgar's character. Gloucester acts rather naively in not second-guessing or questioning Edgar's possible motives for murder. Gloucester, like Lear, mistakes appearance for reality in tr...

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