King Lear - How are the women presented in Act IV? Who would disagree with how they are presented?

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December 24, 2014

 

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The fickleness of women is also shown in Act IV when Goneril tries to make seduce Edmund to be her husband, as she is tired of Albany whom she feels is no longer a man deserving of her favours. She comments: "Oh, the difference of man and man!" (4.2.26), as she now sees Edmund as a true man fit for her...
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She comments: "Oh, the difference of man and man!" (4.2.26), as she now sees Edmund as a true man fit for her. In portraying women as evil and fickle, Shakespeare is conforming to the stereotypes. Shakespeare also presents powerful women as deformed both in shape and in mind, again through the voice of Albany: "Property deformity shows not in the fiend/ So horrid as in women" (4...
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