Oct
19
2021
0
By Sejal Marwaha
Annotation Text:
I would like to contrast this conversation of Edmund and Gloucester with the contemporary COVID scenario where Edmund acts as the Indian Government who try to hide the reality by not putting up measures that they adopt to control the spread of coronavirus while Gloucester is the watchdog i.e, the media and Supreme court who are firm in demanding total transparency.
Excerpt:
EDMUND I know no news, my lord.
GLOUCESTER What paper were you reading?
EDMUND Nothing, my lord.
GLOUCESTER No? What needed then that terrible dispatch
[35] of it into your pocket? The quality of nothing
hath not such need to hide itself. Let’s see. Come, if
it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles.
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Annotated Content:
Act 1 Scene 2