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Act I Scenes I-IV · Father of Goneril, Regan and Cordelia · Owner of a lot of land · Soon to be dead Scene 1: asked his daughters to elaborate their love for him, Gonoreil- the oldest started by saying he was the only person she ever loved more than anyone or anything in the world and so did Regan. To them, he gave a lot of land. To Cordelia- he didn’t give a thing because he misinterpreted what she meant by “just love”. Scene 4: Kent is talking to him and wants to work for Lear. Scene 5: He is hinted by the fool about the way his two eldest daughters are plotting against him. · Edgar and Edmund’s son · Good friend of Lear Scene 2: is fooled by his illegitimate son Edmund who said that his brother sent him a threatening letter. This caused Gloucester to get mad with Edgar which was what Edmund wanted. Scene 1: He did not want to marry Cordelia after he found out she did not have anything as a dowry to get married.
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 * One of Cordelia’s prospects of marriage

CHARACTERS: EARL OF KENT, KING OF FRANCE, REGAN Scene 1 When King Lear asks his daughters to tell him how they love him, Regan is the second daughter to express her love and uses a lot of hyperboles to tell him that she "loves him more than life". The Earl of Kent tries to stand up for Cordelia when she is being disinherited, but since Lear is old and senile, he exiles him as well. The King of France is about to decide if he is the one who is going to marry Cordelia or the Duke of Burgandy, but the Duke refuses, and the King of France takes her.

Scene 2 This scene is where Edmund starts reading the letter from Edgar and Gloucster comes in and he shows his father the "evil plan" that Edgar was plotting against him.

Scene 3 Regan is called by Goneril to be warned of their father's outrageous activities and how he is so senile and crazy that they can take advantage of it.

Scene 4 The Earl of Kent, after being banished, comes back to Goneril's palace disguised as a servant so he could be close to King Lear.

Scene 5 King Lear is talking to the Fool all the time until a servant says that his horses are finally ready and he sets for Regan's.

Cordilia-she is the youngest daughter of King Lear. She is loyal to her family especially to his father. She marries the king of France. She refuses to say how much she loves her father because she does not want to be like her sisters and scam Lear. Duke of Albany- he is married to Goneril the daughter of King Lear. King Lear is going to divide his kingdom among his three daughters. He tells to his daughters to tell him how much they love him. Goneril and Regan are the older daughters tell him a scam because they really don’t love him. But Cordilia his youngest daughter refuse to say a word. Lear was amazed that Cordilia had nothing to say. Then Lear was furious because she had said nothing about the love she had to her father. But then she said that she loved his father like every other human bean should love his father. Then when Kent gives the idea of giving no power to Cordilia Lear banishes Kent. Then Cordilia decides who is going to marry her and she likes the idea of the king of France. The king of France promises her to make her the queen of France.
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__Act 2 Notes Daniel Rivera__ Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4  By: Victoria Bendeck Rebecca Breve Maria Renee Simon
 * 1) The Duke and Regan will stay with Gloucester.
 * 2) Edgar leaves and Edmund plans something against him.
 * 3) Gloucester does not care about Edmund being hurt.
 * 4) Edmund is a liar.
 * 5) Gloucester wants to get Edgar not knowing that he was being tricked.
 * 6) Edmund will work for Cornwall now.
 * 7) Characters: Edmund, Curan, Edgar, Gloucester, Cornwall, Regan.
 * 8) Literary Terms: No literary terms.
 * 1) Kent and Oswald start to insult each other.
 * 2) Kent blames Oswald for being a fraud.
 * 3) Kent is put into the stocks.
 * 4) Characters: Oswald, Kent, Gloucester, Cornwall.
 * 5) Literary Terms: Conflict person vs person. Kent Vs. Oswald.
 * 1) Edgar has a soliloquy and becomes a beggar.
 * 2) Characters: Edgar
 * 3) Literary Terms: Soliloquy with Edgar deciding to become a beggar.
 * 1) Lear gets angry at the Duke and Regan for putting Kent in the stocks.
 * 2) The Fool says very straightforward things.
 * 3) The Duke avoids Lear.
 * 4) Lear is very sick and crazy.
 * 5) Regan is convincing Lear that his other daughter does not show enough love.
 * 6) Lear is confused about his daughters and is all mixed up between the truth and the lie.
 * 7) Regan and Cornwall are throwing Lear out of his own Kingdom.
 * 8) Lear realices that Regan and Cornwall are bad people and plans something against them.
 * 9) Characters: Lear, Fool, Gentleman, Kent, Gloucester, Cornwall, Regan, Goneril.
 * 10) Literary Terms: Conflict; Person vs self, Lear and his madness. Person vs group, Lear vs his daughters and sons-in-law.
 * 1) Literary Terms: Conflict; Person vs self, Lear and his madness. Person vs group, Lear vs his daughters and sons-in-law.

__Act 3__

Scene 1 Kent and the Gentleman are discussing a big storm that is coming on way. They say its size is indescribable, and that they won’t be able to endure it out in the woods. They also discuss the riot between the Duke of Cornwall and the Duke of Albany. Kent sends the gentleman to inform the French Troops that have just arrived in England, that Lear has been kicked out of his daughter’s houses. At the same time he sends a ring, which was symbolic for Cordelia, to recognize the sender, and informs her of the disaster that is taking place.

Scene 2 Lear is out on the storm with his friend the fool. The fool tries to keep good company by making fun of Lear. Lear curses the weather and his daughters for his bad luck. Kent goes look for him and finds him talking to himself. Lear is going mad and is becoming incompetent. Kent encourages him to enter a hut he found in the middle of the woods.

Scene 3 Regan and Goneril threw Lear out of the castle and since Gloucester wanted to help him they took away his house and ordered him not to talk to Lear again. Gloucester finds out that there is a conflict between Albany allied with France and Cornwall. Gloucester tells Edmund that he will help Lear and if someone asks for him to tell them that he is sick. Edmund decides to go against his father and tell Cornwall that Gloucester is helping Lear to inherit his fortune.

Scene 4 Kent leads Lear into the hut, although Lear insists on staying outside because he says he barely feels the storm because he is filled with his own sorrows. He tells the fool to go inside to shelter himself and rest for the night. He stays on the outside and kneels to pray, while he prays he thinks about the decisions he made and how irresponsible he was by giving out all he had to the wrong daughters. He regrets that he has not done anything for the poor and homeless. The fool comes out running clamming that he has seen a ghost in the hut. Poor Tom (Edgar) came out as a madmen screaming that he was possessed by the devil. Lear befriends Tom because he believes he is just like him. Tom tells Lear that he was once a servant that slept with lots of women. Lear in humility tears his cloth of to appear to be like Tom. Gloucester comes to find Lear with his awkward friends, not surprised he tries to convince him to go back to the castle despite Regan and Goneril’s orders. He convinces him but Lear insists on taking Tom with him.

Scene 5 In Regan’s palace Edmund shows a letter to Cornwall in which it states Gloucester’s alliance with France. Cornwall swears revenge to Gloucester. Edmund ironically seems horrified about his father although he is very content to be an ally of Cornwall who crowned him the Earl of Gloucester. Edmund sets away to find his father and turn him in since he believes if he catches him in the act it will be more convincing and he will get greater reward.

Scene 6 In this scene Gloucester, Kent, Edgar, Lear and the Fool are hidden in the hut. Gloucester leaves to find food and necessary tings for king. Lear is growing crazier and he is still shocked. Gloucester returns, telling Kent to hide Lear in another place in England. He has heard people planning to kill Lear. Edgar’s soliloquy explains to us that he has realized that his own problem has vanished now that he knows that Lear is passing through a rougher experience.

Scene 7 Cornwall finds out that the French army is in Dover and asks Goneril and Edmund to take it to Albany. He also orders his servants to capture Gloucester and to severely punish him. Oswald finds Gloucester and Cornwall brutally punishes him. Gloucester accepts that he took Lear to Dover and Cornwall takes out both of his eyes and steps on them. Gloucester calls for Edmund’s help and then finds out that it was actually Edmund who betrayed him and led them to capturing him. Hearing this, Gloucester realizes that he was naïve and believed his illegitimate son, when Edgar was the one who really loved him all the time. Poor Gloucester with no eyes remaining is thrown out of his castle. Gloucester is shocked by the news but he can’t stop thinking about Edgar and prays to the Gods that he lives a good life.

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Act 4 Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 Scene 7
 * Gloucester is led by an old man who has been a resident of Gloucester's father.
 * Gloucester wishes to touch his son Edgar again.
 * They stumble upon Edgar when they are on their way.
 * Goneril realizes that Albany is no longer an ally of him and are informed on Gloucester's position.
 * Regan and Albany fight due to all the cruelties she is doing to her father.
 * A messenger informs Albany on all the events that happened
 * Albany swears to avenge Gloucester's eyes.
 * Kent is still dressed up as a servant.
 * Cordelia is now the queen of France.
 * Lear refuses to meet Cordelia because he feels bad for the way she treated her.
 * Cordelia sends hundreds of troop to find Lear.
 * Cordelia consults with doctor about Lear's chance to recover.
 * Regan is curious about the letter that Oswald is caring but Oswald refuses to show it to her
 * Regan promised a reward to Oswald if he kills Gloucester.
 * Regan realizes she should marry Edmund now that she is a widow.
 * Gloucester jumps of the high cliff from Dover, he falls to the ground, fainting.
 * Edgar still doesn't tell Gloucester that he is his son.
 * Cordelia's troops found Lear but he runs away but still they follow him.
 * Edgar defends Gloucester and kills Oswald with a cudgel.
 * Gloucester is disappointed of not being killed
 * Gloucester and Edgar find a letter that Oswald was carrying to give to Edmund from Goneril about her crush on him
 * Cordelia knows that Kent is disguised, but he keeps it a secret.
 * The battle of France and England approaches.

Literary Terms In this Act we do not see many literary terms, however one of the few we see is Irony, and we see it alot, Cordelia helping his father after what Lear did to her is a great irony, because it would never have been expected to turn out the way it did, an unexpected shift, and then we also see irony and hyperbole with Gloucester jumping from the huge cliff and not dieing, it is a hyperbole due to the exaggeration of him living and ironic because his desperate attempt for suicide did not cause him his death, and also him begging to be with his son again and him being at his side makes that very ironic.

__**Act 5. Elena, alexandra, carolina, Victoria**__

__Act 5 scene 3:__ Edmund has Lear and Cordelia as prisoners; he gives a letter to the captain ordering him to kill them. A series of events occur and Cordelia ends up hung by Edmund and it was made to look as suicide. Edmund had a fight Against Edgar and lost and dies. Albany he refused to be with his wife, Goneril but he stays alive at the end of the novel. Goneril she loved Edmund and since she couldn’t have his love she stabbed her self and died. Regan was in love with Edmund, and Goneril could not resist it and poisoned her. Edgar after all he had gone threw stayed alive. Gloucester’s heart did not resist all he had to go threw and he died of sadness. Lear could not resist the pain he felt when he saw Cordelia dead and died as well. Kent Lear’s loyal servant said that his king was calling him and was about to die. The novel king Lear ended with tragedy, because of the death of almost all of the characters.

Act 5 - Scene 1-ALEXANDRA WAGUI

Summary:
 * Edmund and Regan enter the place were they will meet with Goneril and Albany.
 * They discuss the situation in which Oswald is.
 * Regan asks Edmund if he truly loves her sister and he said yes. She then asks if he has had sex with Goneril and he denies it.
 * Albany and Goneril enter and discuss the decision of going into war since King Lear has met with Cordelia and the French have invaded their soil.
 * They decided to meet and discuss the situation and Goneril at first was not going because her sister was there and they certainly had resentment towards each other.
 * Edgar enters disguised and gave Albany a letter for him to read.
 * Edmund said the enemies were coming and Albany affirmed that they would be ready.
 * Edgar has an introspective on which sister will he stay with. He knew the conflict that it would cause between the sisters and the problem he would have with Albany being alive.

Characters involved:
 * Edmund: Has a dilemma with which sister to stay with.
 * Regan: interrogates Edmund on his relationship.
 * Albany: receives letter from Edgar.
 * Goneril: has a resentment and rivalry towards her sister Regan.
 * Edgar (disguised): gives the letter to Albany.-ALEXANDRA WAGUI

Literary Terms- Carolina Durón

In this act there are not a lot of literary terms. The ones we might find were very general. There was conflict in person vs. person. Goneril is against Regan having Edmund for her, and vice versa. Then you have King Lear we might suggest that according to his now serious hallucinations and his craziness he has a conflict against nature, he sees what he wants and does live in the present he is generally "in the clouds" sort of speaking. Then we may also find conflict, with Edgar and Oswald, Edgar kills Oswald when he was delivering some letters from Goneril to Edmund. Edgar then gives them to Albany, creating a great conflict between the married couple. Another example of conflict is the greed and the fight going on between England and France and how much Goneril and Regan loathe their sister Cordelia, and go to war because of this. Another example might also be the irony of it all, when you think of it if Lear had not been so shallow in deciding how to separate his kingdom, he could have avoided all the pain and sorrow that he went through, and the pain he brought to others. This act ends in tragedy, nearly everyone dies, Cordelia, Lear, Gloucester; Oswald; the Fool, Edmund, Regan and Goneril all die. This represents a very melancholy mood, and of course profound sorrow, so much death and all for greed, shallowness and power hunger.

ACT FIVE SCENCE TWO Cordelia enters with Lear and the French troops. Gloucester and Edgar who is in disguise are waiting in the shade and Edgar decides to go to the battle and leaves Gloucester behind, he returns after a while. He returns scarred and tells Gloucester they must leave because it is dangerous, but Gloucester does not want to live because he thinks that the place they are at right now under a tree is a great place to die. Then Edgar gets worried and tells him that they really have to go and that no one can choose the time they die as well as their birth. So Edgar convinces Gloucester to go with him. So they leave elena corrales