King Lear

Q5 / Explain the relationship among the following characters Kent and Gloucester Edmund and Edgar Albany and Cornwall Cordelia and Regan

Q5 / Explain the relationship among the following characters

Kent and Gloucester

Edmund and Edgar

Albany and Cornwall

Cordelia and Regan

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1) Outraged by Lear's disinheritance of Cordelia, Kent steps in to support her decision. He too is banished. Ever loyal, he returns in disguise as a servant named Caius and aids Lear in this position. He exchanges communication with Cordelia and accompanies Lear to Dover. He reveals himself finally but the King is too mad to realize who Kent is and thus may never know. Kent is dying at the end and thus does not accept Albany's offer to rule jointly with Edgar.

2) Edmund and Edgar are brothers. Resentful of his illegitimacy and having a cruel drive for power, Edmund plots against his brother and father and succeeds. Once Cornwall dies, he gains even more power and Goneril and Regan vie for his hand. He plans to kill Cordelia and Lear after beating them in battle so that he can rule over a united Britain. He is forced to confess his crimes by Albany and killed by Edgar.

3) Albany and Cornwall are involved in a land conflict.

4) Cordelia and Regan are sisters. They are both daughters of King Lear. Cordelia's sisters are jealous of her relationship woth their father, as Cordelia is Lear's favorite.

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King Lear