Texts Quotes Flashcards
“mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon.”
Act2 Scene1 - irony that the (Edmund) most wicked is calling (Edgar) wicked”
“The child was bound to th’father”
Act2 Scene1
“My heart is cracked, it’s cracked”
Act2 Scene1 - being emotional is typically off the woman in plays
“You have shown your father a child-like office.”
Act2 Scene1 - abt Edmund, dramatic irony, deception, reversal of parental roles
“Whose virtue and obedience doth…commend itself”
Act 2 Scene 1 - servitude, dramatic irony
“Edgar I nothing am.”
Act 2 Scene 3 - nothing, identity, humble, lack of materialism,
“They durst not…They would not do’t”
Act 2 Scene 4 - denial, pain, betrayal, slight pathos, repetition, broken up structure reflects internal battle
“Fathers that wear rags do make their children blind.”
Act2 Scene 4 - The fool’s clarity and wisdom, parenting, materialism, blindness, prioritisation of material or parenting trials over kingship
“Oh how this mother swells up toward my heart; Hysterica Passio!”
Act2 Scene4 - personification, sickness, feminisation of pain and grief, women stereotypically are more emotional and he is using a female sickness to detail this. He genders this pain to show where it has came from. More of this idea that he fears the mother - the woman, according to Colin Redgrave.
“All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men”
Act2 Scene4
“Infirmity doth still neglect all office…
Act2 Scene4
“Nature on you stands on the very verge of her confine”
Act2 Scene4
“Heavens…send down and take my part.”
Act2 Scene4
