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isolation of the visual sense as a kind of blindness.
It is in the first scene of the play that Lear expresses his
“darker purpose,” using the Machiavellian cant term. Earlier in
the first scene the darkness of Nature, as it were, is shown in
the boasting of Gloucester about the illegitimacy of his
handsome love-child Edmund: “But I have, sir, a son by order of
law, some year older than this, who is yet no dearer in my
account.” The gaiety with which Gloucester alludes to the
begetting of Edmund is later alluded to by Edgar:
The dark and vicious place where thee he got
Cost him his eyes. (V, iii)
Edmund, the love-child, opens the second scene of the play
with: