Goneril Flashcards
The sisters are masculine in their violence and cruelty. Goneril condemns Albany for being to feminine: she refers to him as:
“Milk-livered man!”
“Women will all turn monsters” - said by a servant
Said to Lear about his age/ wisdom
“As you are old and reverend, should be wise.”
Animal imagery Lear uses to refer to Goneril
“More hideous… than the sea-monster”
Lear curses Gonerils fertility
“Hear, Nature, hear!… Into her womb convey sterility!… if she must teem, create her child of spleen… To have a thankless child!”
Kent about Goneril and Regan: animal imagery + alliteration
“Dog-hearted daughters”
Goneril claims to love Lear Exuberant
Hyperbole: language of flattery
“Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty”
G betrayal of Lear: Goneril angry at striking of her servant by Lear, his (…) knights, refuses to see him by feigning sickness,
“riotous”
Goneril responds to L with this in the ‘love test’
“Sir I love you more than word can wield the matter;
Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty;”
G- starts plotting against L with R
“We must do something, and i’th’ heat.”
- this quote ends scene 1; clearly key, as from here they continue to plot against Lear.
Goneril being dismissive and assertive over Albany
“Marry, your manhood- Mew!”
How does Goneril address herself in her letter to Edm?
“Your wife, so I would say-
Affectionate servant,
Goneril.”
G- “the laws are mine, not thine:”
Goneril- Lear always loved Cordelia most
“He always lov’d our sister most;”
G talking abt L- “Old fools are babes again,”
