Edmund & Fool Quotes

Question 1

expressing hate for his position

Answer 1

“Why they brand us / with base/ with baseness/ bastardy? base, base?”

Question 2

rejecting the nature – familial ties, Edmund appeals to the laws of the jungle in effect, aligning himself with beasts as against custom, morality and order, as a way of justifying himself

Answer 2

“Thou, Nature, art my goddess.”

Question 3

edmunds anti christianity

Answer 3

“Now gods, stand up for bastards.”

Question 4

reaping the destruction he has sown.

Answer 4

“The wheel has come full circle: i am here.”

Question 5

possible redemption for edmund

Answer 5

“some good i mean to do, despite of mine own nature.”

Question 6

criticing lear for banishing cordelia

Answer 6

“thou hadst little wit in thy bald corwn when thou gav’st the golden one away.”

Question 7

last words of the fool

Answer 7

“and i’ll go to bed at noon.”

Question 8

fool pointing out the reverse in natural order

Answer 8

“We’ll go to supper i’ th’ morning.”

Question 9

edgar empathises with lear

Answer 9

“He childed as i fathered.”

Question 10

Edgars last words of the play

Answer 10

“The weight of this sad time we must obey, speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”