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King Lear by Shakespeare image, image, King Lear, Goneril's husband…

- - - - Cordelia’s army has lost!! It’s ironic now that Lear is on Cordelia’s side while evil people fight to defend his kingdom. Now everybody is fleeing…. It can only go downhill from here.
- - - - Gloucester's eyes are gouged out!😬
        
        Along with his eyes, he seems to have lost his will to live. He shuns his companion who has been with him for almost his whole life because he wants to close that chapter of his life, and he walks all the way to Dover just to jump off the cliffs. He also speaks about Edgar—right in front of him, without knowing!
        
        It’s pretty ridiculous how he thought he died when he tripped
        
        so dramatic
        
        Possibly as a public act of terrorism? A threat to his kingdom?
        
        Gloucester died of shock when Edgar revealed his identity! What a way to die, especially for a previously invincible man😂
        
        Now Gloucester can’t tell that Poor Tom is actually Edgar! This causes an ironic scene where Gloucester helps “Tom” out by giving him money and having him lead the way to Dover. I wonder if Edgar will confess to his trickery!
        
        Edgar is beginning to show more of himself to his father, even switching into a peasant instead of Tom. Now he calls him “father,” as in” old man,” which is a little ironic since we know he is actually his father!
- - - - They both seem increasingly sinister and scary. Lear might not be the only one losing his mind!
        
        (a big theme of the play is insanity, if you couldn't tell already)
- - - - I didn't understand his (parody) prophecy at the end of A3:S3. Maybe it quietly foreshadows something to come.
- - - - disguises himself to become Lear's friend--somehow he still has not been found out! (by Act 3)
        
        Brings the news of possible conflict with France -- I wonder, will Cordelia come back on to stand against her father? (A3S1)
- - - - Lear had a confusing life. As observed at the end of the last scene, he had such a difficult time that he did not need to endure any more suffering. All three of his daughters, including his very favorite, died without even giving him time to process. Since his mind had already been going, he totally lost it at that point.