Edmund

Question 1

G Wilson Knight

Answer 1

“this is the key to Edmund’s ‘nature’. He repudiates and rejects ‘custom’, civilisation. He obeys ‘nature’s’ law of selfishness.”

Question 2

Race Capet

Answer 2

“Edmund’s status as a bastard is crucial because he was conceived outside of human society’s inharmonious order, with its moral standards, and is thus free to deny them.”

Question 3

Edward Dowden

Answer 3

“Edgar and Edmund are a contrasted pair- both are men of penetration, energy and skill, one on the side of evil, the other on the side of good.”

Question 4

Charles Gildon

Answer 4

“We rejoice at the death of the bastard and the two sisters, as of monsters in nature under whom the very earth must groan.”