King Lear Flashcards
Quote for Justice
“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport.” - Gloucester
Quote for Identity (Lear)
“Come not between the dragon and his wrath” - Lear
Quote for tragic elements
“I have taken too little care of this […] Shake the superflux to them and show the heavens more just” - Lear
Quote for mix of tangible and non-tangible
“Whose frank heart gave you all” - Lear
Quote for identity (Lear)
“while we unburdened crawl toward death” - Lear
Quote for Justice
“Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life but thou no breath at all?” - Lear
Quote for Old vs New/Topsy Turvy
“Younger rises when old doth fall” - Edmund
Quote for animalistic imagery
“Dog-hearted daughters” - Albany
Quote for identity (Lear)
“you whoreson dog, you slave, you cur” - Lear [Strikes him]
Quote for Justice
“Why brand they us with base, baseness, bastardy? Base? Base?” - Edmund
Quote for Old vs New/Topsy Turvy
“Glib and oily art”
Quote for tragic elements
“O my follies! Then Edgar was abused” - Gloucester
Quote for animalistic imagery
“Sharp-toothed unkindness” - Lear
Quote for identity (Lear)
“Here I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and property of blood.” - Lear
Quote for mix of tangible and non-tangible
“Nothing will come of nothing” - Lear
Quote for for tragic elements
“Divide in three our kingdom […] that future strife may be prevented” - Lear
Quote for animalistic imagery
“She struck me with her tongue, most serpent like” - Lear
Quote for Old vs New/Topsy Turvy
“I must change arms at home and give the distaff into my husband’s hands.” - Goneril
Quote for identity (Lear)
“I am a man more sinned against than sinning”
Quote for identity (Cordelia)
“No cause no cause” - Cordelia
Quote for identity (Cordelia)
“I cannot heave my heart into my mouth”- Cordelia
Quote for identity (Cordelia)
“Holy water from her heavenly eyes.” + “Pearls from diamonds dropped”
Quote for identity (Lear)
“Into her womb convey sterility” - Lear
Quote for identity (Gloucester)
“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us” - Gloucester
Quote for identity (Lear)
“Unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years bring” - Goneril
Quote for identity (Lear)
“Who is it that can tell me who I am?” - Lear + “Lear’s shadow” - The Fool
Quote for tragic elements
“I’ll go fetch some flax and whites of eggs to apply to his bleeding face.” - Servant
Quote for tragic elements
“Rumble thy bellyful! Spit fire! Spout rain!” - Lear
Quote for tragic elements
“shall never see so much nor live so long” - Edgar
Quote for tragic elements
“you twain, rule in this realm” + “the gored state sustain” - Albany
Quote for tragic elements
“Look on her! Look, her lips!” - Lear
Quote for mix of tangible and non-tangible
“Thy truth then be thy dower” - Lear
Quote for mix of tangible and non-tangible
“Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty, and art thou twice her love”
Quote for identity (Kent)
“My master calls me, I must not say no” - Kent
Quote for identity (Kent)
“See better Lear!” - Kent
Quote for identity (Lear)
“I am a very foolish fond old man” - Lear
Quote for identity (Gloucester)
“Unnatural detested brutish villain” - Gloucester
