Explore how Shakespeare uses soliloquies, monologues and asides to explore the characters of King Lear and Edmond.

Shakespeare shows a range of structures and language throughout King Lear, combining to give the play its overall effect. These devices are particularly useful when exploring the true natures of Lear and Edmond. The use of monologues and soliloquies are of extreme importance as they serve several significant purposes, to not just the effect of the play, but also to the plays themes and story lines. These structures symbolise major turning points in the play, …

…insistently and without apparent regard for the justice that is often referred to, and said to believe in, on the innocent; but nobody escapes. At the end of the punishment or relief of death is indiscriminate. The few survivors are bestowed this knowledge, so face an unhappy future. 'King Lear' asks us to think of its events in relation to the last judgement, the promised end itself, calling the conclusion an image of that horror.