Act 4 Scene 1-It can't get worse... oh wait...
SETTING:
outside Gloucester's castle
SUMMARY:
Continues with Edgar's soliloquy about how things 'couldn't' get worse' then sees Gloucester blind...dramatic irony by any chance???
Gloucester asks servant to let Poor Tom lead him to Dover and muses on wrongdoing he inflicted on Edgar.
Edgar agrees and is told to lead him to cliff where he can commit suicide, Edgar agrees and they leave.
KEY THEMES:
Blindness/Sight
Clothing to 'cover up'
Fate
Social justice
*Edgar continues disguise, further themes of clothing (technically Edgar is still being hunted
KEY CONTEXT:
Literary allusion to book of Job where he says 'man is a worm'
Social injustices at the time/Vagrant
KEY QUOTES:
• 'I cannot daub it further'
• 'I stumbled when I saw' pg.173 line 19 SIGHT
• 'As flies to wanton boys, are we to th'Gods;/ They kill us for their sport' pg. 175 lines 36-37 FATE
• 'Tis time's plague when madmen lead the blind' pg.175 line 46 SIGHT/BLINDNESS
• 'Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man... feel your power quickly' pg. 177 line 67&69 FATE/POWER
• 'So distribution should undo excess' pg.177 line 70 SOCIETY/POWER
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