Act 5 Flashcards
1
Q
Lear to Cordelia
A
‘Sing like birds in the cage’
2
Q
Albany to Edmund
A
‘Half blooded fellow’
3
Q
Reagan’s last line
A
‘My sickness grows upon me’
4
Q
Edmund talking to Edgar
A
‘The wheel had come full circle’
5
Q
Gloucester’s heart attack
A
‘His heart burst smilingly’
6
Q
Edmund’s anagnorisis
A
‘Despite mine own nature’
7
Q
Edmund about Goneril and Regan
A
‘Yet Edmund was beloved, the one the other poisoned for my sake and after slew herself’
8
Q
Lear holding Cordelia
A
‘Howl, howl, howl, howl you are men of storms… she’s gone forever’
9
Q
Lear questioning life
A
‘Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life and thou no breath at all?’
10
Q
Kent’s last words
A
‘I have a journey, my master calls me’
11
Q
Edgar at the end of the play
A
‘The weight of this sad time we must obey, speak what we feel not what we ought to say’
