Word: goneril
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...arranging his characters Shakspere placed one set of virtues against a corresponding set of vices. Lear's two older daughters, Goneril and Regan, are contrasted to their younger sister Cordelia, and in the same way the character of Edgar, the Duke's lawful son, is contrasted with that of Edmund the bastard...