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             Shakespeare is best known for his tragic play's. Gloucester and Lear are both tragic Characters. Gloucester, Who is the Earl of Gloucester, starts the play of at the top of his game and crashes down due to his blindness toward his sons. Lear at the beginning of this play is the King of England. Lear is dividing up his land and giving it to his three daughters and he wants to keep the privileges. Lear also is blinded by the flattery of his two oldest daughters. The lives of Gloucester and Lear are mirror images of each other as they each have power and there lives crumble because of their children and they do not realize what happened until after it has destroyed everything they know.
             As this play starts off Gloucester and Lear are at the top of their game. They have power and respect. Edmond wants to get rid of his father, Gloucester, as Goneral and Regan wish to have Lear out of their lives. The following lines show that Edmond is a bastard and cannot understand why he is not entitled to part of Gloucester and he plans on doing something about it.
             Edmond says in a silique, ".Wherefore should I/ Stand in the plague of custom and permit/ The curiosity of nations to deprive me,/ For what I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines,/ Lag my brother?."(Act I scene ii || 2-6). .
             Goneral and Regan think that Lear is a senile old man that is no good for nothing and should just get out of the way. We see this when Goneril is talking to Regan and Goneril says:.
             The best and soundest of his time hath been but.
             rash; then must we look from his age to receive, not.
             alone the imperfections of long-engrafted condition,.
             but therewithal the unruly waywardness that infirm and.
             choleric years begin with them. (Act I scene i ||324-328).
             Gloucester and Lear both get deceived by their children and both don't see it until it is too late. Edmond forges a letter address to himself from his brother Edgar. Gloucester reads the letter that says:.