Act 1 Scene 2 Flashcards
What form is the section between Goneril and Regan in showing them dropping the facade
It’s in prose
Quotes showing how Lear has always been like this in act 1 scene 2
The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash
Choleric years bring with them
What does the dialogue between Goneril and Regan allow us to feel
We start to feel a slight sympathy for Lear.He has been manipulated in his old age.The other sisters see this and decide to manipulate it unlike Cordelia
Quote from Edmund soliliquy showing he feels there is no difference between him and legitimate people
My dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous and my shape as true
Quote showing Edmund feeling he is branded for life with bastardy
Why brand they us?
Quote from Edmund’s soliliquy showing him potentially going crazy and being angry at society
Why brand they us
With Base? with baseless,bastardy?Base,Base?
Quote showing inevitability of Edmund’s plan against Edgar and his determination to do it (quality of a villain)
Legitimate Edgar,I must have your land
Quote showing Gloucester seeming in a state of confusion after Edmund’s soliliquy
Kent banished thus? And France in chopper parted?
And the King gone tonight? Prescribed his power,confined to exhibition?
All this done.
Quote showing Edmund attempting to lure his father into reading the letter
“Nothing,my lord”
Link to previous quotes about Lear/from Lear from Gloucester about the letter
“Nothing…come if it be nothing I shall not need spectacles”
What is the general message of Edmund’s forged letter in Act 1 Scene 2
There should be less respect for old people as they oppress the young people,Edmund and Edgar should kill their father Gloucester
What is the significance of Edmund forging a letter for Edgar
Clearly presents him as a villain as he manipulates his own father into hatred for his brother,He betrays his own blood for his own gain.However is it justified due to the way his own father has treated him as less
Quotes showing Gloucester as being reactionary and almost proving the letter right in Act 1 Scene 2.Also linking him with Lear
O villain,villain!
Abhorred Villain! Unattural,detested,brutish villain-worse than Brutish
Speech from Gloucester in act 1 scene 2 showing his own reactionary nature
Love cools,friendship falls off,brothers divide:in cities,mutinies;in countries,discord;in palaces,treason;and the bond cracked twixt son and father
Quote showing Gloucester putting his trust in the wrong son like Lear did with his daughters
Find out this villain,Edmund
