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KING LEAR QUOTES - ACT 4
Cards in this deck (31)
- 1Attitudes to women "Down from the ..... they're centaurs, though ..... all above. / But to the ...... do the gods .......; Beneath is all the .....'s" - Lear"Down from the waist they're centaurs, though women all above. / But to the girdle do the gods inherit; Beneath is all the fiend's" - Lear
- 2Nothing / Suffering "The ..... is not / So long as we can ... 'This is the .....'" - Edgar"The worst is not / So long as we can say 'This is the worst' " - Edgar
- 3Natural & Unnatural / Authority & Order "It is the ..... / The ..... above us ...... our conditions." - Kent"It is the stars. The stars above us govern our conditions" - Kent
- 4Sight & Blindness / Suffering / Family "A...., I have no ...." - Gloucester"Alack, I have no eyes" - Gloucester
- 5Family / Sight & Blindness / Suffering "O, thou ....-piercing .....!" - Edgar (to Gloucester)"O, thou side-piercing sight!" - Edgar (to Gloucester)
- 6Redemption / Nothing / Nature / Suffering "O ...... piece of nature! This ..... world / Shall so .... out to naught" - Gloucester (to Lear)"O ruined piece of nature! This great world / Shall so wear out to naught" - Gloucester (to Lear)
- 7Sight & Blindness / Truth & Deception "A ... may ... how this world goes with no ...." - Lear (to Gloucester)"A man may see how this world goes with no eyes" - Lear, to Gloucester
- 8Family / Redemption "I am very ......., .... old man" - Lear (to Cordelia)"I am very foolish, fond old man" - Lear (to Cordelo
- 9Family / Redemption / Conflict "You must .... with me. / Pray you now, forget and ......." - Lear"You must beat with me. Pray you now, forget and forgive" - Lear (to Cordelia)
- 10Sight & Blindness / Truth & Deceit "I have no ..., and therefore .... no eyes: I ....... when I saw" - Gloucester"I have no way, and therefore need no eyes: I stumbled when I saw" - Gloucester
- 11Sight & Blindness / Family "Might I but live to ... thee in my ....., I'd say I had .... again" - Gloucester"Might I but live to see thee in my touch, / I'd say I had eyes again" - Gloucester
- 12Gods / Humanity / Existentialism "As ..... to ..... boys are we to th' gods; they kill us for their ....." - Gloucester"As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods; they kill us for their sport" - Gloucester
- 13Sight & Blindness / Madness / Existentialism / Kingship "'Tis the time's ...... when ...... lead the blind" - Gloucester"'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind" - Gloucester
'Makes a kind of parable out of his situation' (Kittredge)
LINK TO OEDIPUS - 14Gods and the supernatural / Pain & Suffering / Fate vs Free Will "Thou whom the .......'s plagues have ....... to all ......." - Gloucester (to Edgar disguised as Poor Tom)"Thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes" - Gloucester
('The torments of heaven have brought you down to this humble state.') - 15Marxism / Class / Nothing "So distribution should undo ......, And each man have enough" - Gloucester"So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough" - Gloucester
- 16Violence / Sex / Family / Attitudes to women / Patriarchal control "My .... usurps my ...." - Goneril"My fool usurps my body" - Goneril
Goneril does not think Albany [a 'fool'] deserves possession of her body - ingrained misogyny - 17Attitudes to women / Supernatural forces "Proper .......... shows not in the fiend so ..... as in ......" - Albany"Proper deformity shows not in the fiend so horrid as in woman" - Albany
('A woman deformed by hatred and rage is more horrifying than the devil') - 18Justice / Fate vs Free Will / Heaven & Supernatural Forces "This shows you are ..... / You ........., that these our ...... crimes / So ........ can venge!" - Albany"This shows you are above, / You justicers, that these our nether crimes / So speedily can venge!" - Albany
('There’s justice in heaven after all') - 19Family / Conflict "But being ....., and my Gloucester with her, May all the ....... in my ..... pluck / Upon my ....... life" - Goneril"But being widow, any my Gloucester [Edmund] with her, May all the building in my fancy pluck / Upon my hateful life" - Goneril
('Edmund is traveling with Regan, who is now a widow. If something happens between them on the road, it would shatter my hopes of having Edmund for myself and escaping this hateful life.') - 20Family / Human nature / Authority / Women "....-livered man!" - Goneril (to Albany)"Milk-livered man" - Goneril (to Albany)
- 21Women "Proper ......... shows not in the ..... / So ...... as in woman" - Albany (to Goneril)"Proper deformity shows not in the fiend / So horrid as in woman" - Albany (to Goneril)
- 22Family / Love / Loyalty "O .... father, it is thy ........ that I go about" - Cordelia"O dear father, it is thy business that I go about" - Cordelia
- 23Family / Love / Loyalty / Power / Kingship "But love, .... love, and our .... father's right" - Cordelia"But love, dear love, and our aged father's right" - Cordelia
- 24Family / Conflict "Your sister is the better ........" - Oswald to Regan"Your sister is the better soldier" - Oswald to Regan
- 25Gods / Free will “O you ...... gods! / This world I do ........" - Gloucester"O you might gods! This world I do renounce" - Gloucester
- 26Deception / Family / Love / Appearance / Tragedy / Suffering "Thy life's a ......." - Edgar"Thy life's a miracle" - Edgar
- 27Gods / Fate & free will / Truth / Deception "Think that the ....... gods [...] have preserved thee" - Edgar"Think that the clearest gods [...] have preserved thee" - Edgar
- 28Nihilism / Madness / Suffering / Sight "O thou side-........ sight!" - Edgar"O thou side-piercing sight" - Edgar (about entrance of a mad Lear)
- 29Nihilism / Madness / Insight "When we are ...., we cry that we are become / To this great ...... of ....." - Lear"When we are born, we cry that we are become / To this great stage of fools" - Lear
- 30Gods / Nature / Free will / Redemption / Justice "O you .... gods / Cure this great ...... in his ...... nature" - Cordelia (about Lear)"O you kind Gods / Cure this great breach in his abused nature" - Cordelia (about Lear)
- 31Tragedy / Hope / Family / Suffering / Love / Evil / Fate "Thou art a .... in ....., but I am bound / Upon a ..... of fire" - Lear"Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound / Upon a wheel of fire" - LEAR
AO4: WHEEL OF FORTUNE
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