During the course of the play I was yet again confounded by the intricate and diabolical plot by the villain, Edmund. Shakespeare never ceases to amaze me with his villains and the success in truly tricking all around him. At one hand I find it unrealistic how Shakespeare's villains like Iago and Edmund can successfully dupe all around them. Yet they do, they do it in a subtle way that the person being lied does not even know it. For example when Edmund quickly puts away a note when his father Gloucester appears. He timed it just right that he knew Gloucester would become curious and want to know what was in the letter. I find that this cunningly simple show of trickery sums up how smart Edmund is and that villains sometimes do make the story have an unhappy ending. I think it is very interesting that Shakespeare was that realistic. He realized that in real life there are not always a prince riding off into the sunset so it shouldn't always be that way in the theater.
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