Psychoanalytic criticism in this story also has to deal with Edmund losing control and becoming "romantically entangled with both Regan and Goneril", Gloucester on the other hand is still going mad and tries to commit suicide. That's when he loses his mind and thinks he's going to jump off a cliff, but in reality he just rolls over and thinks that he wasn't meant to die because God kept him alive for a reason. Goneril and Edmund while this is happening arrive with a crazy plan to try to kill Albany so he can't help his father. Even in this play when they arrive in Dover, everyone has lost their minds. Edgar kills Edmund and at the same time Gloucester also dies without his eyes. The play takes a turn and becomes even crazier with the feud between Lear's family. Goneril eventually loses her mind and poisons Regan because she was jealous of her and Edmund. After doing this, Goneril, already mad, kills herself by stabbing herself
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