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The Fool
- Truth-teller
- 'The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long
That it's had it head bit off by it young / So
out went the candle and were left darkling.'
- 'Truth's a dog that must to kennel; he must be
whipped out, when the Lady Brach may stand by the
fire and stink.'
- 'Now thou art an O without a figure; I am better than thou art now. I am a fool, thou
art nothing.'
- Lear: 'Who is it can tell me who I am?'
The Fool: 'Lear's shadow.'
- 'The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long
That it's had it head bit off by it young / So
out went the candle and were left darkling.'
- Enables insight and empathy to come from
Lear
- Lear: 'Come on, my boy. How dost my boy? Art cold?'
- Lear: 'Come on, my boy. How dost my boy? Art cold?'
- Comic Relief
- 'They'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'It have me whipped for
lying, and sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace.'
- 'They'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'It have me whipped for
lying, and sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace.'
- Wisdom
- To Kent: 'Let go thy hold when a great wheel (Lear)
runs down a hill lest it brake thy neck with
following it, but the great one that goes
upward, let him draw thee after.'
- To Kent: 'Let go thy hold when a great wheel (Lear)
runs down a hill lest it brake thy neck with
following it, but the great one that goes
upward, let him draw thee after.'
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