There were several things that caught my eye while reading this portion of King Lear. The "fake" trail that King Lear put his daughters through. I'm still not exactly sure what happened, I've even read the No Fear Shakespeare. It seems to me that Lear was angry and his daughters because they were terrible and have no care for anything other than themselves so he wanted to put them to justice, in his imagination? He has quite an imagination when Regan runs out of the trial, I'm not sure why he thought that up. Also in the trail Edgar gets to be the judge, so does Kent but he doesn't take it nearly as seriously, I found this interesting because they get to pass judgment and rule whereas when they were not in discuise they could never do that, they were the ones being judged. Another thing I found interesting was when Edgar was almost saying "misery likes company." He says "When grief hath mates and bearing fellowship", I found that Edgan was not rejoycing in King Lear going mad but it made him feel better that he wasn't the only one in hard times; later in that speech you can see that Edgar wants the best for King Lear. One last thing really quick, I found a quote interesting: "As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods; The kill us for their sport." I just found that gloucester had done everything by the book, or so he thought for the most part, yet he couldn't do anything about having his eyes plucked out, the gods were just doing as they pleased, fate was set in stone.
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