Loyalty /disloyalty Flashcards
“Beyond all manner of so much I love you.”
Goneril and Regans hyperbolic language shows their sycophantic nature and fake loyalty towards Lear. Lears ease in believing him could be his hamartia
“Beyond all manner of so much I love you.”
Goneril and Regans hyperbolic language shows their sycophantic nature and fake loyalty towards Lear. Lears ease in believing him could be his hamartia
“Love well our father”
-shows Cordelia’s true loyalty and shows she is the foil of her sisters
“My lord”
-Edmond’s repetition of this phrase presengs him as submissive
-however this is dramatic irony as the audience know he is not loyal and this is just sycophantic behaviour
“My noble friend”
-Cornwall calling Gloucester this is proleptic irony as we later find out his loyalty was fake and he turns on him
“His countenance likes me not”
-euphemism for Kent not trusting Cornwall
“The codpiece that will house before the head has any the head and he shall Louse so beggars marry many.”
-fools euphemistic and sexual language acts as comic relief but also holds wisdom
-the head could be Lear as he is the “head of the country”- body politic and natural
-the euphemism references the consequences of disloyalty (eg the consequences of STD (louse) of free sex)
“Thou simular of virtue that art incestuous”
-metaphor accusing men who claim they are virgins (loyal) commit incest (disloyalty)
“I have served you ever since I was a child but better service had I never done you than now to bid you hold”
-the servant turning in Cornwall could be a message from Shakespeare that morality will always win over loyalty
“I must change names at home and give the distaff into my husband hands”
- portrays Goneril as evil and unnatural(common thing in sheakespear plays to present women as evil and power deranged)
As she says she must swap gender roles with her husband
-shows her disloyalty to her husband as she goes behind his back
“I know your lady does not loves her husband”
-Regan saying “your lady” and not sister shows their detachment and how their relationship has strained now they turn on each other
-shows gonerils disloyalty to her husband
“This gilded serpent”
-Albany calls Edmond a serpent suggesting his duplicitous nature
