th a father and mother join in wedlock could give right to see It is this case its no quite as simple to say that it is the lack of a mother that causes the suffering for Edmund. The lack of a mother for Edmund leaves him asking “why brand they us with base? With base? With baseness? Basterdy? Base, base? “ (Shakespeare, I.ii, 9-10) It is this torment which leads Edmund to falsely incriminate his half brother Edgar of conspiring against Gloucester, however it is this plot which cause the suffering of both the father and son as Gloucester’s suffers being blinded and heart failure, and Edmund suffers imprisonment and subsequent punishment for his action. Like those character’s, which have been mentioned in Titus Adronicus, and King Lear Gloucester’s and his son Edmund’s suffering is caused by this lack of a maternal figure.The plays Titus Andronicus and King Lear are play true to the Shakespearean form in that the contain great quantities of human suffering. Suffering that is caused by the lack of balance between the mothering and fathering methods in the parental relationships within the two plays. In each play parents abandon the maternal approach to child rearing and as result suffering for both parent and the child ensues. Whether Like Titus, Aaron, and Tamora, who show absolutely no tenderness or femininity to their offspring or like Lear and Gloucester who though try to give this tenderness to their children are unable to because of their masculinity suffering is the result. It is this fact that is the driving force of suffering in King Lear and Titus Andronicus. ...
