King Lear

discuss edmund. are we meant to sympathesize with him

can we blame him for his villianary or can we feel sorry for him and why

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Shakespeare allows the audience to feel a certain sympathy to Edmund. Edmund is bitter illegitimate child who is plainly honest about his bitterness and his longing to do better than legitimate and rather nasty brother Edgar.

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