Goneril Flashcards
Goneril, 1.1 [to Regan]
“You see how full of change his age is”
Goneril, 1.1 [to Lear]
“I love you more than words can wield the matter”
Goneril, 1.3
“Old fools are babes again”
Goneril, 2.4 [to Lear]
“What need you five-and-twenty? Ten? Or five?”
Goneril, 1.5 [to Albany]
“this milky gentleness and course of yours”
Macbeth: “Milk of human kindness”
Goneril, 3.7
“Pluck out his eyes”
Goneril, 4.2 [to Albany]
“Milk-liver’d man!
That bear’st a cheek for blows”
Goneril, 5.1
“I had rather lose the battle than that sister
Should loosen him and me”
Goneril, 5.3 [aside]
“If not I’ll ne’er trust medicine”
J. Stampfer
“[Goneril] is, from the point of view of conscience, an animal or beast of prey”
Hazlitt
“Their deliberate hypocrisy adds the lasting finishing to the odiousness of their characters”
