To begin my blog today I am going to look at the very last portion of act 5 first. In class we discussed the possibility of Cordelia being the fool and how it was highly improbable that that was the case. I still agree that this is probably not what Shakespeare intended, for Cordelia and the Fool to be one and the same, however, I did see, what I considered to be evidence of the proposition. After Cordelia has been hung he mentions that his Fool has died but in this line he is referring to his daughter, not his fool. Also I knew the play was a tragedy and the characters would die but I didn't expect Edgar and Kent to live just because of their important roles in the play. Although in this play what "comes around goes around" was a very accurate statement, all of the characters who died did things and confessed to doing things that were not necessarily in the best interest of others. Also when all was said and done at the end it was Albany who had the kingdom, even though his wife was about to get rid of him and in essence make Edmund the king. Along with that Goneril and Reagan fighting for Edmund in front of Albany was surprising, I did not think that she would fight for Edmund in front of her husband because he was her partner in control of the kingdom, but she also disclaimed this argument.
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