Ohhh, poor Edmund. His dad had a fling with some woman and he was the product of it. In these times this is frowned upon and makes him a bastard son. Obviously when society even tells you that you are an illegitimate child, and the second child anyway, you aren’t going to get any inheritance. So he is distraught about that. What you have is everything. What you own makes you. He isn’t going to have anything, which makes him nothing, and he is already nothing because he is a bastard child.
He embarrasses his father. When a parent is embarrassed by their child and the child realizes it, it makes the child feel inferior. And in this case, he already feels inferior because he isn’t legitimate. Now he is freaking out and trying to overpower his father to compensate for the inferiority. He will feel accomplished or legitimate if he does that. It would somehow prove that he was superior or good enough to be the heir of his father’s fortune.
What I personally respect about Edmund is his creativity. I mean Edgar and his father are pretty stupid, but those are some pretty elaborate lies. I give him some credit for that. His ability to lie his way around to get what he wants is pretty impressive. I also would give him credit for taking charge of what he wants. I mean, killing your father and tricking your brother might not be the best way to go about it, but at least he has a plan for his life. And if it wall works out for him, he is going to have a pretty good life- minus the guilt of how he got there.
I guess I would say a modern equivalent is stepchildren. Having a child out of wedlock, is no longer thattt taboo. But stepchildren often seek the approval of the stepparent and may or may not receive it.
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