Act 3 Scene 3- ooh Edmund you are such a bastard
SETTING: Gloucester's castle
SUMMARY:
Gloucester talking with Edmund about how he is uncomfortable @ Lear's treatment and the letter he has got from Cordelia.
Edmund tells the audience he will betray his father-seriously?!?
THEMES:
Loyalty-> Gloucester and Cordelia are loyal but Edmund isn't
Political Conflict-> Lear's impact of abdication/ turning away from order
KEY QUOTES
· ''There is a division between/ the Duke's, and a worse matter than that' line 8-9 pg.133 CONFLICT/PLOT
· 'The younger rises when the old doth fall' line 25 pg.135 POWER/AGE
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