GLOUCESTER

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• Gullible/morally blind/felicious
• Mirrors Lear
• Compassionate (Lear)
• Powerless/inneffectual
• Defiant

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• Noble
• Vulnerable
• Desperate
• Growing in wisdom
• Accepts suffering/own faults

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• Heart-broken
• Resigned (accepting)
• Foolish (to begin with)
• Rash (Edgar)

KEY STATEMENTS

• Mirrors Lear/Lear's journey
• Gloucester was blind to the realities of his sons.
• Through suffering, Gloucester achieves wisdom
• Gloucester is slow to realise his part to play in
• his own downfall.

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• Edgar rescues Gloucester from despair.
• Gloucester completes his journey from
• despair and accepts suffering as a part
• of the human condition.

FOOLISH

• "There was good sport at his making, and the whoreson
• must be acknowledged"
• Gloucester brags about his unfaithfulness to his wife.
• He is proud that Edmund came to be

GULLIBLE

• "O villain, villain!"
• He believes Edmund's lies about Edgar almost
• immediately .
• He cannot identify his children.
• He is morally blind.

INEFFECTUAL

• "I'm sorry for thee friend. Tis the duke's pleasure."
• Gloucester does not have a great impact
• on decisions or situations .

RASH

• "Not in his land shall he remain unfound

LOYAL TO LEAR

VULNERABLE

NOBLE

• Passionate in defense of Lear

WISE

HEART-BROKEN