3. What do Gloucester’s and Edmund’s comments about the constellations of the stars reveal about their individual beliefs in the power of the stars or fate? Gloucester expresses his belief that the constellations of the stars are responsible for the mischief that is happening in the world.
What is Edmund’s attitude toward the concept of loyalty and what does it reveal about his character?
What is Edmund’s attitude toward the concept of loyalty and what does it reveal about his character? He pretends to be loyal to the duke and his father but in reality he is loyal to only himself. This shows that he is manipulator.
What is the purpose of Edmund’s soliloquy?
Edmund’s soliloquy reveals his plan to undermine his brother’s position by tricking his father with a forged letter, which he presents to Gloucester in this scene.
What does Edmund’s letter say?
Edmund suggests his brother sent the letter as a test. Gloucester takes the bait and demands to see what the big deal is. The letter—supposedly from brother Edgar—suggests that the brothers conspire to kill their father.
What does Gloucester’s blindness symbolize?
Gloucester’s physical blindness symbolizes the metaphorical blindness that grips both Gloucester and the play’s other father figure, Lear.
How does Edmund’s character change over the course of the story be sure to address how he comes to earn the title Edmund the Just?
Edmund proves his valor by destroying the witch’s wand. He is injured in the fray, but when he recovers Aslan makes him a Knight. When Edmund becomes King, he is lauded for his counsel and judgment, and is known as “Edmund the Just.”
What two rewards has Edmund’s betrayal of his father’s letter netted him?
The setting is Gloucester’s castle. Edmund betrays his father and wins Cornwall’s approval by releasing the details of France’s plan to aid the king. As reward, Edmund gains Gloucester’s title and lands.
What is Edmunds fatal flaw?
To rid himself of his father, Edmund feigns regret and laments that his nature, which is to honor his father, must be subordinate to the loyalty he feels for his country. Thus, Edmund excuses the betrayal of his own father, having willingly and easily left his father vulnerable to Cornwall’s anger.
What does Edmund mean by nature?
Edmund suggests that nature is a malevolent goddess who provides him with the bad nature necessary to challenge the status quo. Therefore his badness is natural.
What good does Edmund try to do before his own death?
Edmund repents his crimes and determines to do good before his death. He tells the others that he had ordered that Cordelia be hanged and sends a messenger to try to intervene.
What are Edmund’s thoughts and feelings as he sneaks away to the White Witch’s home?
Edmund embraces the Witch’s evil and cruelty and cannot turn back. Edmund still dreams about the Turkish Delight, but now he also thinks about getting even with Peter, keeping his sisters down, and making laws against beavers and dams and fauns and anyone else he senses to be on opposing side.
What was in Edmunds forged letter?
Edmund begins his campaign to discredit Edgar by forging a letter in which Edgar appears to plot the death of their father, Gloucester. Edmund makes a show of hiding this letter from his father and so, naturally, Gloucester demands to read it.
What message does Goneril’s letter to Edmund contain?
Edgar reads aloud the letter from Goneril to Edmund which asks Edmund to take one of the ‘many opportunities’ he will have to kill Albany so that he can marry Goneril. Edgar disposes of Oswald’s body and then leads his father away.
What is ironic about Gloucester’s blindness in this scene?
It is ironic because once Gloucester is blinded and cannot physically see, he finally can “see” all of his mistakes, and where he went wrong with his family.
What is Gloucester’s tragic flaw?
This act of adultery is Gloucester’s fatal flaw which produces an imbalance in his character and leads him to his reversal. Therefore, Gloucester can be considered a secondary tragic hero as he is a noble character by accepting Edmund but still suffers from his fatal flaw of adultery.
Why the blind man was trying to hide his blindness in the story the eyes are not here?
Answer: The narrator was pretending to be normal-sighted all the time and hides his blindness from the girl. He thought that he was fooling the girl but then he came to know from the fellow-traveler that the girl was also blind just like him.
Who does Edmund marry in Narnia?
Caspian
During his second visit to Narnia at the age of 16-17, Edmund met and fell in love with Caspian and decided to stay in Narnia with Aslan’s blessing. After a two-year courting period, Caspian and Edmund married and eventually, the couple had a daughter.
How does Edmund’s character change over the course of the story?
For the first half of the book, Edmund is as spiteful and mean as it is possible for a young boy to be, but his character transforms halfway through the novel. By the end, Edmund is fair-minded and brave, and he is just as admirable as Peter. This is the whole purpose of Edmund in the novel.
Why do you think Edmund’s heart gave a great leap when he realized the frost was over?
Edmund’s heart gave a great leap when he realised that the frost was over because he knew that the sledge they were using would not work unless there was frost and snow in the kingdom.
Why did Edmund stab himself?
2.1 Edmund convinces his brother to run away from home. Then he stages a fight with his brother and cuts himself so that it looks like he was trying to stop his brother from getting away.
How did Edmund betray Lucy?
When Lucy tells the older siblings that they went to Narnia and told Edmund to tell them too, Edmund betrays Lucy and tells them that Lucy was making Narnia up. It is when all four of the Pevensie children later go through the wardrobe that he lets slip that he has been in Narnia before.