... , or has false language just granted them their title (as in Goneril and Regan's case)? It is ironic in some ways that many of the characters in King Lear, who own or receive positions of high authority (Lear, Goneril, Regan, Edmund) are very flawed, and the last three could even be described as "evil". Whilst the two characters which return to ... nature, Lear and Edger, realise the seductive corruption or materialism (money, land and luxury) and power, Goneril, Regan and Edmund are eventually destroyed by their selfishness and ambition. However, Edger, and especially Lear, discover com...

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