Scene 2 - Edmund dislikes being judged for being a bastard son of his father. He is going though the trouble of playing both his brother and father, plotting to put them against each other. He wants to obtain a rank higher than both of them to prove bastard sons are as good as the legitimate son.
Scene 3 - Gonreail is tasking her trustful servant and telling him what she plans to do about the king staying at her castle when he has no power now. She tells him to tell the other servants to be lazy and pay no mind of the king to make him leave to her sister’s castle.
