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edettethegreat:

> edettethegreat:

> > edettethegreat:

> > > Also while I’m here let me just say as much as I love Goneril, Regan will always be better than her in my opinion

> > Point 1- Lear asks his daughters to praise him

> > Goneril says a whole long (and tbh overdramatic) speech about how much she loves him

> > Regan just goes “yeah what she said. Except like 3x more”

> > And lear’s like ‘WOW YOU SURE MUST LOVE ME A LOT THEN’

> Point 2- when Goneril and Regan both are trying to figure out if Edmund is secretly dating both of them, goneril’s tactic is to murder Regan, bc if Regan’s dead Edmund’s definitely not dating her

> Meanwhile, Regan’s tactic was to just ask Edmund.

> She was like “hey are you dating Goneril?”

> And Edmund was like “what?! No!”

> And she was like “ok cool just checking”

> And yeah of course Edmund was lying, but that’s not the point. Because Regan knows what a healthy relationship is, and knows that you have to trust your partner.

Point 3- Goneril and Regan each commit 1 murder (minus Goneril killing herself), but Regan has a much more valid motive

Goneril’s motive is to turn the love triangle into a love straight line

Regan’s motive is to kill the guy who killed her husband (and might kill her? And is interfering with the whole plan?) (but in the end of the day she definitely did love Cornwall to some extent and she did just watch servant #1 stab him)