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King Lear Quotes
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- 1Quotes on the theme of injustice'the wheel is come full circle'
'our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous'
'upon a wheel of fire' - 2Quotes on the theme of insanity'would I were assured of my condition'
'I never gave you kingdom, called your children' (Lear to the storm)
'O fool I shall go mad' - 3Quotes on the theme of disguises/truth'I am much more than my out wall' (Kent)
'the most basest and poorest shape' (Edgar)
'draw, you rogue' (Kent to Oswald)
Oswald has sword (A04 sumptuary laws) - 4Relationships and contrasts in the text*Clarity in madness - Lear (mad) ,
Gloucester (blind)
*Letters - Edmund tricking Edgar with FALSE letter
Edgar foiling Edmund with REAL letter
*Madness - Lear (real madness)
Edgar (Poor Tom: constructed madness) - 5Character Development quotes: King Lear'what need you five and twenty? Ten? Or five?'
'I gave you all' (Reagan: 'And in good time you gave it')
'pelican daughters'
His speech is more fragmented in his madness - 6Character Development Quotes: Edmund'Both? One? Or neither?' - Doesn't care about either sisters
'Yet Edmund was beloved' - End of play - 7Character Development quotes: Albany'humanity must perforce prey on itself like monsters of the deep'
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