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    Gloucester prays to the gods to forgive him and can no longer bear his suffering, intending to commit suicide. Edgar wakes Gloucester and pretends they are still at the cliff's edge to prevent Gloucester from killing himself. Oswald comes upon them and plans to kill Gloucester for the reward from Regan, but Edgar kills Oswald instead.

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    Gloucester prays to the gods to forgive him and can no longer bear his suffering, intending to commit suicide. Edgar wakes Gloucester and pretends they are still at the cliff's edge to prevent Gloucester from killing himself. Oswald comes upon them and plans to kill Gloucester for the reward from Regan, but Edgar kills Oswald instead.

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    Gloucester prays to the gods to forgive him and can no longer bear his suffering, intending to commit suicide. Edgar wakes Gloucester and pretends they are still at the cliff's edge to prevent Gloucester from killing himself. Oswald comes upon them and plans to kill Gloucester for the reward from Regan, but Edgar kills Oswald instead.

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    He tells Gloucester it is very high and it gives

    Act 4 Scene 6 him vertigo.

    Summary Gloucester prays to the gods to forgive him.


    Gloucester can no longer bear his suffering and intends
    to commit suicide. He falls to the ground, fainting.

    Edgar in disguise leads


    Gloucester toward Dover.
    Edgar wakes Gloucester up. He now acts like an ordinary
    gentleman telling him it is a miracle that he is still alive.

    Edgar pretends to take Gloucester to the


    cliff, telling him that they are going up
    steep ground and that they can hear the Edgar states, the gods do not want Gloucester to die.
    sea. Edgar informs Gloucester that he saw a devil besides him
    at the top of the cliff.
    Lear in madness meets Edgar and Gloucester.
    He recognizes Gloucester and he tells him that
    the source of his tragedy is his adultery. He
    then blames that women are evil.

    Cordelia’s people enter seeking King Lear.


    They try to take him into custody to bring
    him to Cordelia.

    ‘Catch me if you can! Sa, sa, sa, sa.' Lears


    exits running, chased by two gentlement.
    Gloucester is disappointed not to have
    Oswald comes across Edgar and Gloucester been killed.
    on the plain.

    Edgar reads with interest the letter that


    Oswald carries to Edmund. In the letter,
    Goneril urges Edmund to kill Albany so that
    He does not recognize Edgar, but he
    they can be together. Edgar is outraged; he
    plans to kill Gloucester and collects the
    decides to keep the letter and show it to
    reward from Regan.
    Albany.

    Edgar pretends to be someone else


    imitating the dialect of a peasant from the He buries Oswald nearby and leads Gloucester off to
    west of England. He defends Gloucester temporary safety.
    and kills Oswald with a cudgel. As he dies,
    Oswald entrusts Edgar with his letters.
    Quiz
    (Act 4, Scene 6)
    Quotes Women, Lear claims, seem pretty
    normal from the "waist" up but,
    down below there's "hell" and
    "darkness" like a "sulphurous pit."
    Lear's sexist description of female
    anatomy calls to mind the
    symptoms of a very unpleasant
    LEAR
    ''Down from the waist they are centaurs, venereal disease—"burning,
    Though women all above. But to the girdle do the scalding, stench," and so on. It
    gods inherit; beneath is all the fiends'. There's hell, seems that King Lear associates
    there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit; burning, all women with a very unpleasant
    scalding, stench, consumption! Fie, fie, fie, pah, STD, especially his daughter,
    pah! Goneril, whose name, as you may
    (4.6.140-145) have guessed, sounds a whole lot
    like "gonorrhea."
    Edgar plays with Gloucester's
    Why I do trifle thus with his despair
    despair in order to cure it.
    is done to cure it.

    Gloucester proclaims that he will Henceforth, I'll bear affliction till


    endure whatever hardship comes it do cry itself out.
    his way and endure this misery
    until he is released from life.

    Lear finds that when we are


    born we cry due to being born
    When we are born, we cry that we into a terrible world.
    are come to this great stage of
    fools.
    “O ruined piece of
    Edgar nature” (4.6.130)
    (4.6.33–34)

    ''Enough, enough,'' Gloucester sees


    Gloucester and, die. Lear as a ruined
    piece of nature.
    (4.6.77-78)
    Lear
    (4.6.180-181) Gloucester
    1. Who does Edgar say was with 2. Who meets Edgar and Gloucester in
    Gloucester at the top of the cliff? madness?

    A) A devil A) Oswald
    B) A ghost B) Cornwall
    C) Lear C) Lear
    D) Edmund D) Devil

    4. What is the content of the letter in 3. Why does Oswald want to kill
    Oswald's pocket? Gloucester?

    A) Regan hates Edmund. A) He wants to get the reward from Regan.


    B) Regan wants to go out of the kingdom B) He hates Gloucester.
    with Edmund. C) He wants to end the suffering of
    C) Regan wants Edmund to kill Albany. Gloucester.
    D) Cordelia is coming to overrule the D) He is possessed.
    kingdom.

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