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  1. 1"Man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal"Act 3 Scene 4 - Lear
    Suggests that at the core people are no different than animals
  2. 2"Turn out that eyeless villain. Throw this slave upon the dunghill"Act 3, Scene 7 - Cornwall
    Comes after Cornwall has ripped out Gloucester's eyes. Reveals his evil side.
  3. 3"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!/ You cataracts and hurricaneos, spout/ Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!"Act 3 Scene 2 - Lear
    Attempt to speak to the storm suggests he has lost touch with the natural world and ordinary human understanding of nature. Asking whether nature and Gods are actually good, and if so why have they treated him so badly.
  4. 4"Turn out that eyeless Villain. Throw this slave upon the dunghill"Act 3 Scene 7 - Cornwall.
    Occurs just after Gloucester's eyes have been ripped out. Demonstrates evil.
  5. 5"Thats something yet: Edgar I nothing am"Act 2 Scene 2 - Edgar
    To survive under his new circumstances Edgar must cease to exist. His previous life ceases to be nothing and as Tom he is also nothing. Those who are mad exist in a world where nothing is as it seems. His disguise parallels the loss of sanity that envelops Lear.
  6. 6"Here I stand your slave. A poor infirm, weak and despised old man"Act 3 Scene 7 - Lear
    Lear sees himself as a victim of injustice. Spoken when he is out on the heath during the storm.
  7. 7"The whoreson must be acknowledged"Act 1, Scene 1 - Gloucester
    In the first scene when Gloucester is telling Kent how Edmund is his illegitimate son
  8. 8"Struck me with her tongue/ Most serpent like, upon the very heart"Act 2 Scene 4 - Lear
    Occurs when Lear is speaking to Regan about how Goneril has betrayed him. He compares her to a snake.
  9. 9"See better, Lear"Act 1 Scene 1 - Kent
    An example of Lear's blindness is initially presented in the first scene, whilst he is banishing Kent and Cordelia.
  10. 10"Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot"Act 3 Scene 7 - Cornwall
    Refers to sight/blindness. Occurs just before Gloucester's eyes are ripped out
  11. 11"Let this kiss repair those violent harms that my two sisters have in thy reverence made"Act 4, Scene 7 - Cordelia
    Example of the love and loyalty shown by Cordelia.
  12. 12"Is a man no more than this? Consider him well"Act 3, Scene 4 - Lear
    Lear addressing Edgar's largely uncovered body. He is frightened to see himself stripped of everything that made him secure and powerful.
  13. 13"Tis the times plague when madmen lead the blind"Act 4, Scene 1 - Gloucester
    Gloucester, referring to being led by poor tom has now developed as a character. He has learned (like lear in his madness) of the errors in his life and of the things he has not given enough attention to
  14. 14"Who is it who can tell me who I am?" "Lear's shadow"Act 1, Scene 4. Lear and the Fool.
    Lear now does not know how to define himself with no power. Fool's response could refer to how he is Lear's shadow, or how Lear is now a shadow of his former self.
  15. 15"Or rather a disease that's in my flesh, Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil, A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle, In my corrupted blood."Act 2, Scene 4 - Lear
    In Lear's mind the corruption of his kingdom has been caused by Goneril and Regan. Lear also blames all the problems in the world on women.
  16. 16"Unhappy that I am I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more nor less"Act 1 Scene 1 - Cordelia
    Cordelia's refusal to flatter Lear, establishes her virtue and authenticity of her love while bringing about Lear's dreadful error of judgement.
  17. 17"Well, My legitimate, if this letter speed, And my invention thrive, Edmund the base, Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper. Now, Gods, stand up for bastards!"Act 1 Scene 2 - Edmund
    Repetition of legitimate reveals Edmund's obsession with his brothers status as his fathers rightful heir. Words define his character throughout the play as he sets about raising himself through forging personal prosperity through teachery and betrayals.
  18. 18"I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws, Or ere i'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!"Act 2 Scene 4 - Lear
    Goneril and Regan are driving Lear mad since he is unable to bear the realization of his daughters terrible betrayal.
  19. 19"As flies to wanton are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport"Act 4 Scene 1 - Gloucester
    Spoken as Gloucester is out on the heath. Reflect the despair that grips him. Emphasizes whether there is justice in the universe. Suggests there is no good order in the universe. There is only the sport of vicious gods who reward delight in suffering.
  20. 20"howl howl howl howl... That heavens vault shall crack. She's gone forever! I know when one is dead and when one lives; She's dead as earth"Act 5, Scene 3 - Lear
    As Lear emerges from prison carrying Cordelia's body. Howl of despair returns to theme of justice - no explanations offered for Cordelia's death.
    Tension between Lear as powerful figure and animalistic madman explodes to service "howl" - a spoken vocalization of his primal instinct.
  21. 21"I am a man more sinned against than sinning"Act 3 Scene 2 - Lear
    Shakespeare couches acknowledgement in the language of Christianity and whoeing that despite the pagan environment of the play Lear inhibits an inner world of sin, guilt and retribution.
  22. 22"Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm"Act 3 Scene 4 - Lear
    Lear shows that his own sufferings have taught him to consider society's outcasts. Criticism of Shakespeare's society.
  23. 23"A man may see how this world goes with no eyes, Look with thine ears"Act 4, Scene 6 - Lear
    When Lear enters heath with a crown of flowers. Represents a moment of reason from Lear.
  24. 24"The various roles Edgar plays are the means by which he matures into royalty"Kenneth Muir
  25. 25"The play is a commentary on fathers losing their power in a particular and miserable historical period"Rosalie L Colie
  26. 26"King Lear criticizes the powerful rights fathers held over their daughters. Lear abuses his authority over Cordelia and then needs her forgiveness"Marianna Novy
  27. 27"The suffering in tragedy is not an end but a product and a means"Unknown critic
  28. 28"Under his clothes, the King is equal to the beggar"Sun
  29. 29"King Lear Is Monstrously unjust"A.C Bradley
  30. 30"A play in which the wicked prosper and the virtuous miscarry"Johnson
  31. 31"King lear is too drawn out and has too many characters and subplots"George Orwell
  32. 32"King Lear is generally agreed today to be Shakespeare's 'greatest play' noth only by the learned but also by the general public"Unknown Critic
  33. 33"When compared with Hamlet, King Lear speaks of a world more problematical.. King Lear's world like our century is larger, looser, crueller, cruder"Unknown critic
  34. 34"But the fool is one of Shakespeare's triumphs in king Lear. To remove him would spoil its harmony"A.C Bradley
  35. 35"Feminist scholars think Cordelia is an unrealistic character"schmoop.com
  36. 36"If King Lear were to have been written according to the classically accepted rules of writing, Shakespeare would not have ended up with the play as it is"King Lear critical studies site.
  37. 37"Some commentators view King Lear as representing a pessimistic view of life"Unknown Critic
  38. 38"The play contains an explicit message of hope and redemption"Unknown Critic

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Jess Morcom · Jun 2014
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