In the beginning of scene 2 of Act 1, Edmund is confessing how he is going receive the land and that it is not his fault that he is illegitimate. As Gloucester enters, Edmund hides the paper with the plan in his pockets, and Gloucester asks why he put away the letter, and continues to ask what exactly the paper is about. Edmund answers “nothing, my lord’ (Shakespeare 1.2.33). After having a conversation about if it was really nothing, Edmund finally reveals the letter but pending the evil schemes described in the letter on his brother, Edgar. Gloucester does asks Edmund if Edgar written the letter and “has ever sounded like this before” (Shakespeare 1.2.73), which seems as though he is in some kind of disbelief about this plan of action, but after hearing Edmund say he heard something before, he quickly believes that Edgar, his legitimate son, is willing to get rid of him. Gloucester does not see Edmund for who he really is, to take fact he is believing in what Edmund is telling him about his own
In the beginning of scene 2 of Act 1, Edmund is confessing how he is going receive the land and that it is not his fault that he is illegitimate. As Gloucester enters, Edmund hides the paper with the plan in his pockets, and Gloucester asks why he put away the letter, and continues to ask what exactly the paper is about. Edmund answers “nothing, my lord’ (Shakespeare 1.2.33). After having a conversation about if it was really nothing, Edmund finally reveals the letter but pending the evil schemes described in the letter on his brother, Edgar. Gloucester does asks Edmund if Edgar written the letter and “has ever sounded like this before” (Shakespeare 1.2.73), which seems as though he is in some kind of disbelief about this plan of action, but after hearing Edmund say he heard something before, he quickly believes that Edgar, his legitimate son, is willing to get rid of him. Gloucester does not see Edmund for who he really is, to take fact he is believing in what Edmund is telling him about his own