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King Lear - Coggle Diagram
King Lear
Act 5
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The battle happens offstage, heard through sound only.
Edgar comes back to collect Gloucester, who wants to only stay there to die.
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Edgar appears and fights Edmund, defeating him.
Goneril poisons Regan, then kills herself.
Edmund dies, but not before trying to save Lear and Cordelia from his orders
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Act 3
Kent tells the Gentleman to go to Dover, and tell Cordelia all that has happened to Lear.
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When Gloucester leaves the stage, Edmund says that he will tell Cornwall about his father's betrayal, and so win his title and power.
Edmund reveals Gloucester's betrayal to Cornwall, and gains his father's title.
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Quotes
KIng Lear
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'Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man’s life is cheap as beast’s.'
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Edmund
'Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law
My services are bound. '
'Now, gods, stand up for bastards! '
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Goneril
'Idle old man, That still would manage That he hath given away'
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The Fool
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“I am a fool, thou art nothing.”
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Act 4
Edgar finds his father Gloucester, blind
Goneril is with Edmund; she tells him to command the wounded Cornwall's armies, and says she will take control of cowardly Albany's.
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Themes
Fathers, Children, and Siblings
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Disintegration, Chaos, Nothingness
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Act 2
Edmund and Edgar talk: Regan is coming here to Gloucester’s house tonight. Edmund tricks Edgar into fleeing, then convinces Gloucester he has been attacked.
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