King Lear - Power Corrupts

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Edmund writes another letter, except this implicates his father in a plot with France to kill The Duke of Cornwall. He does this so that "the younger rises [and] the old doth fall" (3, 4, 25) and he will become the Earl. Edmund is so corrupted and blinded by his quest for power that he is willing to jeopardize his father's life for a chance at being the Earl...
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Edmund is so corrupted and blinded by his quest for power that he is willing to jeopardize his father's life for a chance at being the Earl. Absolute power corrupts absolutely with the characters Regan, Goneril, and Edmund. This power blinds them into seeing nothing except the quest for total control...
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