1. Equity and Fairness: The Villains of King Lear
The words that Edmund uses, "an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star" (I.ii.105-6), recalls the words of his father just minutes earlier. ... "My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so it follows, I am rough and lecherous," Edmund says. ... I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing" (I.ii.106-110). ... "To both sisters have I sworn my love," Edmund says. ... Although Edmund's punishment is death, he dies proudly...
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- Grade Level: High School