Regan

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Character development:

Regan's journey to aggressor.

Act 2, Scene 2

'Till noon? Till night, my lord, and all night too'

Lear asks for stay with Regan during the storm but Regan refuses to house his servants.

Regan is the first to establish his banishment:

'And speak't again, my lord; no more with me.'

'I am made of that self metal as my sister,

And prize me at her worth. In my true heart

I find she names my very deed of love;

Only she comes too short, that I profess

Myself an enemy to all other joys

Which the most precious square of sense possesses,

And find I am alone felicitate

In you dear Highness' love.

Forshadowing future competition

Act 3, Scene 7.

Regan in King Lear

'The injuries that themselves procure

Must be their schoolmasters.

Shut up your doors.'

And with this Lear is banished by his daughters Regan and Goneril.

Regan reaches her peak of villainy when she rejoces in Gloucester's blinding.

'Hang him instantly...Ingrateful fox!... Hard, hard. - O filthy traitor!... Go thrust him out our gates and let him smell his way to Dover!....'

Regan's is louder in this scene. Unlike her sister unable to contain composure.

Character profile:

If he dislikes it, let him to our sister,

Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one

- Goneril

• Being a middle child she's somewhat forgotten/ unappreciated
• Regan echoes her sister
• Personification of hypocrisy
• She later on develops confidence and becomes gradually more aggressive.

Her Demise

• Falling in Love with Edmund
• Love feud develops between sisters.
• Regan is poisoned by her sister.
• Regan then kills her sister.
• It is ironic that the only act that she truly does independently is the murder of her sister.