Goneril & Regan - created from Mind Map

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Evidence of Evil

Reason for their evil - Lear

Evidence against Evil

'Tigers not daughters'

'Sharp toothed unkindness, like a vulture

Most Serpent like

'She will taste as like this as a crab does to a crab/Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i'th' middle

Those Pelican daughters

Like monsters of the deep

Devil

Dogs

Gilded serpent

Regan is targeting Lear's weak spots which enrages him

Conniving

devious

Lear's experience with one will be as sour as with the other

The Fool tells Lear that Regan will be just like Goneril

young pelicans were thought to attack their parents; and it was believed that adult parents fed the young on their own flesh and blood

they bark at me

Kent- dog hearted daughters

Comparing Goneril & Regan to dogs

dog eat dog world

We must do something in i'th' heat

Pray you, let us hit together

yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself

Lear

Strike while the iron is hot

Heat = Hell; Passion; and Sin

Plotting Lear's downfall

Demonstrates their deceit after using hyberbolic language

Lear does not know what he is doing

I'll not weep

'Those wicked creatures yet do look well favoured

Your kind old father, whose frank heart gave all

Externally the world is weeping

The Storm

Causes Lear to become 'mad'

I shall go mad

Regan and Goneril are playing Lear

Barganing him down to 0 men

And in good time you gave it

I gave you all

sympathetic

old= kind

'Infect her beauty

You fen-sucked fogs, drawn by the powe'rful sun/ To fall and blister her

You unnatural hags,/ I will have such revenges on you both/ That all the world shall -I will do such things.

See what breeds about her hear/ Is there any cause in nature that make these hard hearts

Lightening, fog & blistering sun

foreshadowing his treatment

Pagan vision of hell

Lear

Childish

Fantasising

Possibly ironic because Lear is the cause

Goneril has manners and courtesy whereas others have true base villany

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