Gloucester

How Do The Family Problems Between Lear And Gloucester Parallel Each Other?

Gloucester’s story runs parallel to Lear’s. Like Lear, Gloucester is introduced as a father who does not understand his children. He jokes about Edmund and calls him a “whoreson” (I.i.) when Edmund is standing right next to him. In his first soliloquy Edmund reveals how much he resents the way his father treats him. What …

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