quotations Act 5 Flashcards
Cordelia talking to Lear, Beginning of Act 5,scene 3
We are not the first who, with best meaning, have incurr’d the worst
Lear talking to Cordelia near the start of Act 5, scene 3
Come, lets away to prison. We two alone will sing like birds i’th cage
Lear talking to Cordelia at the start of Act 5 scene 3
He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven, and fire us hence like foxes
Albany talking to Edmund in a disparaging way
Half- blooded fellow
Edgar talking to Edmond having defeated him in the sword fight - he is referring to Gloucester being blinded
The gods are just, and our pleasent vices/ make instrument to plague us. The dark and vicious place where thee he got cost him is eyes
Edmond talking to Edgar shortly before his death
The wheel has come full circle
Edmond talking to edgar after he has just told him the sad story about their father dying
This speech of yours hath moved me, And shall perchance do good
Edmond
Some good I mean to do, despite of mine own nature
Edmond talking about Goneril and Rgean- who have both just been declared dead
yet Edmond was beloved. The one the other poisoned for my sake, and after slew herself
Lear holding Cordelias dead body
Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones:/ Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so/ that heaven’s vault should crack. She’s gone forever!
Albany talking to Edgar and Kent near the end of the play, just before Lear’s death
All friends shall taste/ the wages of their virtue, and all foes The cup of their deserving
Lear holding Cordelia’s dead body part 2
why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?
Lear holding Cordelias body part 3
Never, never, never, never, never
Kent’s last words
I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; my master calls me, I must not say no
Edgar talking at the very end of the play
Thy weight of this sad time we must obey; / speak what we feel, not what we ought to say/ The oldest hath borne most. We that are young/ shall never see so muc, nor live so long
