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* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Lear. |
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Lear. |
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* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Edmund doesn't actually kill his father, but he's totally complacent as even worse things are done to him. This makes Edmund very much an [[Evil Prince]]. |
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Edmund doesn't actually kill his father, but he's totally complacent as even worse things are done to him. This makes Edmund very much an [[Evil Prince]]. |
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* [[Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!]]: The storm scene is the archetypal example -- thunder, lightning and all. |
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** Because of Lear's rather unwound state, however, he alternates between cursing nature, asking nature to smite Goneril and Regan, and thanking nature for not being as inhumanely cruel as Goneril and Regan. |
** Because of Lear's rather unwound state, however, he alternates between cursing nature, asking nature to smite Goneril and Regan, and thanking nature for not being as inhumanely cruel as Goneril and Regan. |
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* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: By the end of the play, Edgar is convinced that only he can undo his brother's plot. |
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: By the end of the play, Edgar is convinced that only he can undo his brother's plot. |
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