Justice

Question 0

Human justice:

Lear, 4.6

Answer 0

“Plate sin with gold,

And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks”

Question 1

Human justice:

Goneril, 5.3

Answer 1

“The laws are mine, not thine.

Who can arraign me for’t?”

Question 2

Justice and morality:

Edgar, 5.3

Answer 2

“The dark and vicious place where thee he got

Cost him his eyes”

Question 3

Divine justice:

Lear, 1,1

Answer 3

Swears by Pagan deities: 
"Sacres radiance of the sun" 
"Mysteries of Hecate and the night" 
"Apollo" 
"Jupiter"

Question 4

Divine justice:

Lear, 2.4 [to Goneril]

Answer 4

“If you do love old-men… Send down and take my part”

begging for help from the heavens

Question 5

What word is said 31 times in the play?

Answer 5

“God”

Question 6

Divine justice: benign:

Regan, 2.4

Answer 6

“Bless’d Gods”

Question 7

Divine justice: benign:

Albany, 4.2

Answer 7

“You are above

You justicers”

Question 8

Divine justice: benign:

Cordelia, 4.7

Answer 8

“O you kind Gods”

Question 9

Divine justice: benign:

Edgar, 5.3

Answer 9

“The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices,

Make instruments to plague us”

Question 10

Divine justice: benign:

Gloucester, 4.6

Answer 10

“You ever-gentle Gods”

Question 11

Divine justice: malign:

Gloucester, 4.6

Answer 11

“As flies to wanton boys are we to th’gods;

They kill us for their sport”

Question 12

Divine Justice: Norman Maclean

Answer 12

“Lear believed in a universe controlled by divine authority, harmony, ordered in it’s parts”