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King Lear Quotes
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- 1'As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods, they kill us for sport' Gloucester 4.1Lack of divine justice
Nihilistic and pessimistic
Hopeless - 2'I had often blushed to acknowledge him' Gloucester 1.1No natural order
Breakdown of parent-child relationships
Hubris of Gloucester - 3'As thou my sometime daughter' Lear 1.1Disclaims all paternal care
Cordelia a 'barbarous Scythian'
Folly b/c Cordelia is the one who truly loves Lear - 4'He hath no daughters sir' - Kent 'Death traitor!' Lear 3.4Lear blames all women
Compares daughters to pelicans
Mother pelicans wounded themselves to feed young
Lear believes he is the mother pelican - 5'How sharper than a serpeants tooth it is to have a thankless child' Lear 1.4The sting of Goneril's rejection
He has rowdy knights that he clings on
Lear even though he is not King anymore - 6'Lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base? Edmund 1.2Edmund mistreated and labelled a base
Product of affair
Edmund not eldest so primogeniture dictates that he should not inherit anyway - 7'To shake all cares and business from our age' Lear 1.1Transferring burdens to young people, presents a feeble old man
Old vs young - 8'With reservation of a hundred knights' Lear 1.1Clutches onto respect and authority even though he is not king
Not fit for kingship as he does not want responsibility but the wealth - 9'Lear's shadow' Fool 1.4Lear is nothing but a shadow of his former self
Nothing without his former power and title
Avengers - 'Big man, in a suit of armour take that away, what are you?'
Captain America - 10'Doth any here know me' Lear 1.4Lear doesn't know how to define himself after losing power
Identity crisis - 11'O sir, you are old nature in you stands on the verge' Regan 2.4Lear doesn't have much longer to live
Not fit to rule the kingdom - 12'O heavens if you do love old men, if your sweet away' Lear 2.4Calls upon the heavens to take his side and send a storm
Thus he becomes homeless
Storm represents disorder - 13'Rumble thy bellyful! Spit fire spout rain' Lear 3.2Views himself as a victim of injustice, his daughters have betrayed him caught out on heath during storm
Whole kingdom against Lear - 14'Poor naked wretches' Lear 3.2As king never thought about homelessness
Realised he had the power all along to help those people
Partial anagnorisis - 15'The wheel has come full circle' Edmund 5.3Justice has been dealt
Wheel of fortune - 16'All friends shall taste the wages of their virtue' Edgar 5.3Edgar gets to rule the kingdom b/c he is a moral person
Edmund punished, got what he deserved
Cordelia did not deserve to die
Thus this line is absurd - 17'The God's defend her, Cordelia' Albany 5.3No divine justice
Irony
Bleak tragedy - 18'My poor fool is hanged Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life?' Lear 5.3No explanation to why Cordelia or the Fool is dead
No divine justice
The good are treated in the same way as the bad. - 19'Wherefore should I stand in the plague of custom' Edmund 1.2Unfairness of primogeniture
Goes against natural order and God's order
Not his fault wants to take control - 20'Shall top the legitimate' Edmund 1.2Darwinian and survival of the fittest
Self serving - 21'Dost thou know me, fellow?' Lear 'No sir, but you have in your countenance' Kent 1.4Caius to join Lear again
Someone in the kingdom is still loyal to Lear
Kent's dying model of service, servants put master before their needs - 22'Bedlam beggars' Edgar 2.3His downfall due to disorder
Roams around like a madman
Draws attention to the theme of homelessness - 23'The younger rises then the old doth fall' Edmund 3.3Father vs son
Old vs young
Old people had power in England, had all the land but the younger generation had nothing
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- A level English Flashcards on King Lear Quotes, created by Onik Ullah on 03/06/2018.
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