Lear: death Flashcards
Order and causes of deaths:
- The fool (hanged?)
- Servant (stabbed by Regan)
- Cornwall (stabbed by servant)
- Oswald (killed by Edgar)
- Gloucester (broken heart)
- Regan (poisoned by Goneril
- Goneril (stabs herself)
- Edmund (stabbed by Edgar)
- Captain (killed by Lear?)
- Coredlia (hanged by Edmund)
- Lear (dies of a broken heart)
- Kent (plans his suicide)
First death:
R: Give me … thus!
[Takes a …
1S: O! I am … Oh!
R: Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus!
[Takes a sword and runs at him from behind]
1S: O! I am slain. My Lord, you still have one eye left to see some mischief on him. Oh!
When does the servants death (and Cornwalls) occur?
Act 3 scene 7
Edgar to Gloucester on death 5:2, “Men must… is all.
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither: Ripeness is all.
Edgar to Albany/Edmund on death 5:2 “O! our lives … die at once!”
O! our lives’ sweetness That we the pain of death would hourly die Rather than die at once!
Edgar on his fathers death 5:3 “but his flawed … Burst smilingly.”
but his flawed heart,
Alack, too weak the conflict to support!
‘Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,
Burst smilingly.
Edmund on his, Goneril and Regan’s deaths 5:3 “I was contracted … an instant.
I was contracted to them both, all three Now marry in an instant
Albany on the spectacle of G&Rs death: “Seest … Kent? [The bodies … in
Seest thou this object, Kent?
[The bodies of Goneril and Regan are brought in
Lear on Cordelia’s death 5:3 “I know when … as earth”
I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She’s as dead as earth.
Kent on Lears death 5:3 “Vex not … out longer.”
Vex not his ghost: O! Let him pass; he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Kent’s death: I have a … say no
I have a journey, sir, shortly to go;
My master calls me, I must not say no.
