king lear quotes Flashcards
edmund expressing his jealous and confusion regards gloucester liking edgar more
“when my dimensions are as compact my mind as generous and my shape as true”
edmund plotting against edgar by making him look like a villain that attacked him
“some blood drawn on me beget opinion”
edmund schemes against his own father to cornwall and tries to make himself look innocent
“how malicious is my fortune that i must repent to be just”
edmund rejoices over the fact that both regan and goneril have fallen in love with him
“to both these sisters ahve io sworn my love each jealous of the other”
kent advises lear to be wiser when making judgemement
“see better lear”
kent critises lear despite his affection for him
“be kent unmannerly when lear is mad”
kent disguises himself to serve lear despite being banished so cruelly by him
“to serve him, to love him, to converse with him”
kent provides readers with a commentary of lears mental health
“his wits begin t’unsettle”
kent continues to narrate how lear is feeling in the present
“a sovereign shame so elbows him”
cordelia is filled with grace and purity and will not lie to lear
“i love your majesty according to my bond no more no less”
cordelia opposes to her sisters hypocritical claims
“why have my sisters husbands if they say they love you all?”
cordelia still cares so much for lear even after everything he did to her
“let this kiss repair those violent harms that my two sisters have ..made”
gonereil is very hypocritical as she speaks as she claims to not have words to describe her love for lear
“i love you more than words can weild the matter”
gonereil plots against lear in revenge of him loving cordelia more
“we must do something and i’ the heat”
gonereil thinks of the most gruesome punishment for gloucester
“pluck out his eyes”
gonereil has no respect for albany
“milk livered man”
gonereil would rather lose the war than give up edmund to regan
“i had rather lose the battel than that sister should loosen him and me”
gonereil poisons her sister
“if not ill ne’er trust medicine”
regan claims to love her father as much as gonereil
“i am made of that same metal as my sister….only she comes too short”
regan manipulates lear into thinking he is wrong
“i cannot think my sister in the least would fail her obligation”
regan tries to convince lear he is misunderstanding due to age
“o sir you are old nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine”
regan shows no remorse for what she did to gloucester
“let him smell his way to dover”
regan is filled with jealousy when she finds out about gonereil and edmund
” dear my lord be not familiar with her”
lear disowns cordelia over such a mere issue
“here i disclaim all paternal care”
lear treats kent with such disrespect as he banishes him
“if on the tenth day following thy banished trunk be found in our dominions the moment is thy death”
lear wishes the worst things upon his daughter gonereil
“create her a child of spleen disnatured to torment her”
lear starts to repent
“i did her wrong”
lear starts to gaimn character development as he realises he values things now that he has no authority
“that can make vile things so precious”
lear starts to go mad
“ha gonereil with a white beard”
lear acknowledges he is wrong
” forget and forgive I am old and foolish”
gloucester is gullible to believe the things that edmund says to him
“abominable villain”
gloucester realizes that edgar was innocent
“oh my follies then edgar was abused”
gloucester wants to kill himself
“bring me to the brim of it and ill repair the misery thou dost bear”
the fool mocks lear by telling him his daughters have taken his authority
“all thy other titles thou hast given away”
the fool tells lear that regan and gonereil are the exact same
“as a crab does to a crab”
the fool called lear dumb
“thou should not have been old till thou hadst been wise”
