Natural Order in King Lear

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Natural Order in King Lear

• Ben Milum
• Eric Brighton
• William Taylor
• Sebastian Restrepo

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Instances of Natural Order

• Act 1, Scene 1 (lines 7-33)
• Act 1, Scene 2 (lines 1-22)
• Act 1, Scene 4 (lines 1-90) and (lines 191-280)
• Act 1, Scene 5 (entirety)
• Act 2, Scene 1 (lines 32-85)
• Act 2, Scene 2 (lines 40-169)
• Act 3, Scene 1 (entirety)
• Act 3, Scene 2 (entirety)

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Continued

• Act 3, Scene 3 (entirety)
• Act 3, Scene 4 (lines 37-107)
• Act 4, Scene 1 (entirety)
• Act 4, Scene 6 (lines 1-80) and (lines 1-80)
• Act 4, Scene 7 (lines 44-97)
• Act 5, Scene 1 (entirety)
• Act 5, Scene 2 (lines 1-25)
• Act 5, Scene 3 (lines 155-222) and (lines
  238-327)

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Act I, Scene I

• Kent Is not Edmund your son, my lord?
• Gloucester His breeding, sir, hath been at my
  charge. I have so often blushed to acknowledge
  him that now I am brazed to tBut I have a son,
  sir, by order of law, some year elder than this,
  who yet is no dearer in my account.

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Activity
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Act I, Scene II

• Lines 1-22.
• Edmund refutes custom and tradition by believing
  he is just as much a man as Edgar and worthy of
  his fathers inheritance.

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Act II, Scene I

• Lines 89-99.
• Gloucester ...and of my land, loyal and natural
  boy, Ill work the means to make thee capable.
• Edmunds treachery prevails when his father
  decides to reward his perceived loyalty with the
  inheritance and take it away from the rightful
  heir, Edgar, thereby reversing the Natural Order.

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Roshambo
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Act V, Scene III

• Lines 155-327.
• Edgar is revealed as the beggar proving his
  undying loyalty to his father. Ultimately, the
  natural order is restored when King Lear is
  restored as King of England.

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