Gloucester

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__**Who is Gloucester?**__ **(Matt S, Gina S, Marissa Z, Schuyler K, Kieran S, Natalie T, Liz S)**

 * Father of Edmund and Edgar
 * Part of King Lear's court, a nobleman
 * An adulterer, he fathered a bastard son, Edmund
 * Easily angered and emotionally weak, he has no faith in his son Edgar
 * A gullible old man, he believed his son, Edmund’s, lies without much question or doubt
 * Went through a situation parallel to King Lear, denounced his only loyal son much like how Lear disowned his only loyal daughter
 * Accused of treason by Regan and Cornwall because he tried to help King Lear
 * Had his eyes gouged out by Cornwall
 * Tries to kill himself after he is blinded by jumping off of a cliff, but the cliff isn't real. Edgar brought Gloucester to an imaginary cliff so that he wouldn't die
 * Gloucester is very loyal to the king
 * Mistakes Edmund's motives
 * Gloucester blames events on the stars and does not take responsibility for his own actions
 * Dies right after his son, Edgar, reveals that he was actually Tom



__**Quotations **__

 * **As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods, —They kill us for their sport.**
 * **Gloucester,** Scene I Act IV(As referenced by WikiQuote.com)


 * **I have no way, and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw: full oft 'tis seen,Our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.**
 * **Gloucester,** Scene I Act IV (As referenced by WikiQuote.com)
 * **//(to// LEAR//)// Our flesh and blood, my lord, is grown so vile,** **That it doth hate what gets it.**
 * **Gloucester,** Act 3 Scene 4 (Taken from No Fear Shakespeare)

media type="youtube" key="tD3xxoZ0SAs" height="315" width="420" (From a King Lear Production in 2008 in which Glocester's eye's are famously gouged out).