edettethegreat:
I desperately want to start making content about characters other than Edmund and plays other than King Lear but we’re still doing King Lear in AP Lit so every time I try to move on to other stuff school is just like “nope nope you gotta keep thinking about King Lear”
Anyway we’re about to start Pride and Prejudice in regular English class so guess I’ll be making memes about that soon
But anyway while I’m still here talking about Edmund, let me just say
If anyone would have given him even a drop of attention and respect at any point in his life, he would have caused approximately 0 drama in this play.
Anyway this thing happened today where I was supposed to come up with reasons why Goneril was Wrong to tell her servants to be rude to Lear, and I Couldn’t, and I was just trying to get the answer the teacher wanted,
so I was like “… because he was the king? But he’s barely the king now??”
And she was like “and why else?”
And I was like “…I guess he’s her father so she has some obligation to be polite to him??”
And she was like “and Why Else??”
And I was like “?????? I don’t know?”
And she was like “because he just gave her land and she should be grateful!!”
And I was like “??????????????”
Like. Yeah. Who else would he have given it to?? He wants it to stay in the family, right? So he’s not gonna give it to anyone other than his daughters?? It was his choice to retire?? They never asked for land he just handed it to them?? Unless you count praising him as asking for land, but praising a vey unstable all powerful ruler just seems like a common sense thing to do if you dont wanna die or get banished??