family, love Flashcards
Gloucester introduced as a father not understanding his children
(relationship between G and Edmund)
Calls Edmund (illegitimate) his ‘whoreson’ and says he has ‘so often blushed to acknowledge him’ whilst Edmund stands beside him.
Oblivious to Edmund’s resentment of his father
Lear asking which loves him most
Lear asking which loves him most quote
4 main quotes from Goneril’s love speech
I love you more …
dearer than…
a love that makes…
beyond…
‘I love you more than words can wield the matter’
‘Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty, beyond what can be valued’
a love that makes ‘breath poor’ and ‘speech unable’
she loves him ‘beyond all manner’
Love’s not love when..
Love’s not love when it is mingled with regards that stand aloof from th’entire point
What does Regan say in response to Cordelia when C says she wishes her father to be in a better place?
Prescribe…
Prescribe not us our duty.
pronoun - ‘us’, unity/alliance between G+R
Lit crit
Family relations in the play are seen as…
Family relations within the play are seen as fixed and determined, any movement within them is portrayed as a destructive reversal of rightful order - McKluskie
