King Lear - Quotes Flashcards
“Blow winds and crack your cheeks. Rage. Blow.” - King Lear
- Loss of power
- Lonely man
“God stand up for bastards” - Edmund
- Corruption of power
- Subverts the natural order
- Edmund is rapacious
“Pluck out his eyes” - Goneril
- Corruption of power
- Gaining of power
- Goneril has the power to do so
“Nothing comes of nothing” - King Lear
- Power leads to broken down relationships
- The irony of everything happening from Cordelia’s choice to say nothing
- Mirrors the obverse
“I had rather lose the battle than that sister should loosen him and me” - Goneril
- Power leads to broken down relationships
- Goneril would rather lose the battle than have Regan split her and Edmund
“The Gods are just” - Edgar
- Justice
- Power of integrity
- Willful blindness
“Cure this breach in his abused nature” - Cordelia
- Presentation of Cordelia/Lear
- Upset by her father’s torment
- “Cure” stated out of love and concern for Lear
- Feels as though he does not deserve his suffering
“I am bound. Upon a wheel of fire” - Lear
- Presentation of Lear
- Tormented
- Medieval depiction of Hell
- Broken man
“No, Sir, you must not kneel” - Cordelia
- Insistent on keeping the divine order
- Refuses to allow Lear to depreciate himself
- Subservient female
“O, Sir! You are old” - Regan
- Disrespect for her father
- Power leads to broken down relationships
“I shall go mad” - Lear
- Foreshadow of his downfall
“Old fools are babes again” - Goneril
- Believes her father isnt worthy of his power
“A king falls from biased nature” - Gloucester
- Agree’s with Lears decision to banish Cordelia
- Showing weakness would ruin him
“The younger rises when the old doth fall” - Edmund
- Wants Lear and his father dead in order for him to gain power
