Quotations Act 3 Flashcards
Lear shouting at the storm- beginning of Act 3, scene 2
blow winds crack your cheeks! Rage, Blow…. Crack nature’s mould, all germens spill at once/ That makes ingrateful man
The storm scene Act 3
Here I stand, your slave,/ a poor infirm, weak, and despised old man
Lear shouting at the storm Act 3, scene 2
I am a man more sinned against than sinning
Lear after noticing that the Fool is feeling the effects of the bad weather - Act 3, scene 2
Come on, my boy. How dost my boy? Art cold?/I am cold myself
Edmund talking to his father, Gloucester, about the way Lear has been treated recently. This line is ironic since Edmund is treating his father in a similar way
Most savage and unnatural
Edmond talking to himself after talking to his father, Gloucester- act 3, scene 3
That which my father loses; no less than all:/ The younger rises when the old doth fall
Lear telling kent and The Fool that, unlike them, he cannot feel the physical effects of the storm- act 3 scene 4
when the mind’s free, the body’s delicate. This tempest in my mind/ Doth from my senses take all feeling else
Lear talking to himself after seeing the Hovel and noticing how cold the Fool is- Act 3, scene 4
Oh, I have taken/ too little care of this !
Lear talking the homeless after experiencing for himself what it’s like to be poor and homeless
Take physic pomp. expose thyself to feel what wretches feel
Lear talking about Goneril and Regan
Those Pelican daughters
Lear before taking of his clothes
Unaccomodated man is no more but such a poor, bare forked animal as thou art. Off, off you lendings! come, unbutton here
Gloucester talking to Regan and Cornwall
tis most ignobly done to pluck me by the beard
Cornwall as he blinds Gloucester
Out vile jelly, where is thy lustre now?
Gloucester shortly before he is blinded
I am tied to the stake and i must stand the course
Gloucester talking just after being blinded and then discovering the truth about Edmund
O my follies! The Edgar was abused/ kind God forgive me that and prosper him
