King Lear act 1
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- Is this your son?
- But I love the whoreson no less than his legitimate brother who is slightly older.
- Ah, yes. There was good sport in his making.
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- See better, Lear and let me still remainThe true blank of thine eye(I.i 160-161).
- What's a marriage without a dowry? It's off.
- The dowry for Cordelia is off! Kent! YOU ARE BANISHED!
- It doesn't matter if you're dowryless. Fair Cordelia, YOU are the dowry!
- Following the discussion on the King's choice to distribute his Kingdom equally among his three daughters. Gloucester's son, Edmund, runs into Kent, Lear's loyal servant, and Gloucester, Even though Gloucester makes jokes about how he was conceived, he still loves him just as much as Edmunds's legitimate brother.
- By Edgar
- Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land. Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund(I.ii 16-17).
- Lear makes his daughters compete in the throne room to tell him which one loves him the most. Whoever shows him their affection more will receive the largest amount of land, he promises. Lear's older daughters, Goneril and Regan, flatter him and stroke his ego while Cordelia, Lear's youngest and favourite daughter, stays silent because she refuses to heave her heart into words.
- I couldn't beileve it either, but the handwriting is most definitely his.
- This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of out disasters the sun, the moon, and stars (I.ii 118-121).
- Hum! Conspiricy? 'Sleep till I waked him, you should enjoy half his revenue.' My son Edgar! Had he a hand to write this? a heart and brains to breed it in? When came you to this? Who brought this? (I.ii 55-58).
- These misfourtunes are all because of the late eclipses!
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- Despite being a devoted servant, Lear banishes Kent for interfering and pointing out his errors and disowns Cordelia for simply saying nothing. After learning that Lear removed the Dowry of a piece of the land, the King of France and the Duke of Burgundy, who are both contending for Cordelia's affection, respond in various ways. Burgundy, who appears to be simply interested in the land, declines to marry Cordia without a dowry, but France is unaffected and refers to Cordia as the prize. taking her.
- Oh my! Edgar! Father is extremely angry with you! What did you do? Think back to anything you may have done!
- Stay armed. I fear for your safety.
- I did nothing at all! Some villain hath done me wrong (I.ii 163)
- !???
- Insidious plans are being made by Edmund to discredit his legitimate brother. He intends to forge a letter in which Edgar discusses making plans for killing their father and taking his land.
- In his actions, Edmund appears to be trying to keep the letter from his father. Glocester naturally asks for the letter out of curiosity, and when Edmund gives it to him, Glocester now suspects that Edgar has been plotting to kill him. Glocester attributes this negative event to recent eclipses and other circumstances. And Edmund believes that is just nonsense.
- When Edmund encounters Edgar, he warns him that Gloucester is enraged and advises him to carry a weapon at all times for protection. This will make it easier to use Edgar as a scapegoat for the murder since he also carries a weapon.
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