Ms. Gaskill
CP English 12
King Lear Essay
It can be said without question that in the play King Lear, villains Edmund, Goneril, and Regan are all driven to treachery in order to gain power. But the measure of how evil they may be is not defined by the power that they are trying to achieve, but rather the motivation and the means they go about in trying to obtain it. In trying to determine which character is the most evil, one must first decide which is morally worse- repeated betrayal or treachery without cause.