King Lear Key Quotes
- Created by: tommannering
- Created on: 22-02-18 13:33
DP - Lear uses this to allude to dividing the Kingdom, alarms Elizabethan audience
We shall express our darker purpose.
1 of 42
WOYDLUTM - Lear introduces his trial of love between his daughters, incredibly vain.
Which of you doth love us the most.
2 of 42
ES&L - Goneril's hyperbole and flattery
Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty
3 of 42
SSM - Regan mimics Goneril's flattery
Of that same self metal.
4 of 42
WSCSLABS - Cordelia's aside about how her love is real and cannot be expressed falsely like her sister's.
What shall Cordelia speak? Love and be silent
5 of 42
NTSCON: Theme of nothing, repetitive between Cordelia and Lear.
Nothing shall come of nothing.
6 of 42
BKU: Kent's bluntness and honesty in the face of Lear's rage at Cordelia's honesty.
Be Kent unmannerly (When Lear is mad)
7 of 42
US/SNH: Regan and Goneril's condemning statements of Lear's age and character.
Unconstant starts, slenderly known himself.
8 of 42
TNAMG: Edmund appeals to nature, its influence on his position.
Thou nature art my Goddess.
9 of 42
BUWBBBBB- Edmund's distaste for his position and how people treat him.
Brand us with base, baseness, bastardy, base, base
10 of 42
GSUFB: Edmund appealing to the God's for recognition.
Gods, stand up for bastards!
11 of 42
LEITSMPNG: Gloucester's superstition of the future involving the sun and moon.
These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.
12 of 42
INBBHLBW: Edmund's ambition to usurp his brother as heir.
If not by birth, have lands by wit.
13 of 42
WN: Goneril instructs Oswald to be disrespectful to Lear.
Weary negligence.
14 of 42
TADMTK: The fool explains that telling the truth ends in punishment.
Truth's a dog must to kennel.
15 of 42
NCBMON: Repeating nothing theme, Lear states this to the fool.
Nothing can be made of nothing.
16 of 42
TCIMAGABP: The fool summarising Lear giving away his crown.
Thou closest thy crown in the middle and gave a way both parts.
17 of 42
LS: The fool's response to Lear asking who can tell him who he is.
Lear's shadow
18 of 42
STAST/TC: Serpent imagery of an ungrateful child, Lear's sadness.
Sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
19 of 42
O!LMNBMSH: Lear appealing to the God's hoping to not turn mad.
O! Let me not be mad sweet heavens!
20 of 42
LANB: Gloucester praises Edmund for his false loyalty.
Loyal and natural boy.
21 of 42
TNMLAAN: Regan's spiteful punishment of Kent.
Till night my lord, and all night too.
22 of 42
EINA: Edgar abandons his former self as he flees.
Edgar I nothing am.
23 of 42
LGTHWAGWRD: Wheel imagery, how people stop caring when life spirals down.
Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down.
24 of 42
BWACYC: Lear commands the storm (wind) to do its worst to the world, destructive.
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!
25 of 42
SYSPIDOM: Lear realises what he is now, no longer a king but an old man.
Stand your slave, a poor, infirm, despised old man.
26 of 42
IAMMSATS: How Lear has done wrong but is being overly screwed over now.
I am a man more sinned against than sinning.
27 of 42
MSAU: Edmund pretends to be furious that Regan and Goneril haven't taken in Lear before the storm, just to appeal to Gloucester's loyalty.
Most savage and unnatural!
28 of 42
YRODF: The rising of the young Edmund and fall of Gloucester.
Younger rises, the old doth fall.
29 of 42
TIMM/TF: Lear talks about the storm in his mind. Microcosm
Tempest in my my mind doth from all my senses take feeling.
30 of 42
TCNWTUTFAM: The storm will turn everyone into fools and madmen, Lear and the Fool. Self realisation
This cold night will turn us to food and madmen.
31 of 42
TP/GA: Lear is talking to Edgar, or 'Poor Tom', links to Aristotle and cave analogy.
This philosopher, good Athenian.
32 of 42
NGWTL: Edmund informs Cornwall of Gloucester's efforts to help Lear, betrays his father.
Nature gives way to loyalty.
33 of 42
IDTPMBMB: The rude to pluck a man's beard, Gloucester states.
Ignobly done to pluck me by my beard.
34 of 42
TCNPOHPOE/BF: Incredibly important and ironic statement from Gloucester protecting Lear, protecting Lear's eyes even though Gloucester actually loses his.
Thy cruel nails pluck out his poor old eyes. Boarish fangs.
35 of 42
MLTB: Gloucester alludes to the chaos in the Kingdom, people leading others.
Madmen leading the blind.
36 of 42
MATVS: Cordelia sees the madness that has taken over Lear.
Mad as the vexed sea.
37 of 42
TTMIWE: Lear's realisation of how everyone flattered him, told him what he wanted to hear, his ignorance.
They told me I was everything, tis a lie, I am not argue-proof.
38 of 42
WWAB,WC,GSOF: Lear's insightful comment of tears at the start of a life, it is a foreshadowing.
When we are born, we cry, great stage of fools.
39 of 42
BUAWOF,TSLML: Wheel of fire imagery, destruction and Fortuna, as well as Lear's immense sadness.
Bound upon a wheel of fire, tears scold like molten lead.
40 of 42
FFOM: Further self realisation from Lear, pathos, gains empathy.
Foolish fond old man.
41 of 42
HHHH!: Lear finds out Cordelia's death, although he refuses to accept it
Howl, howl, howl, howl!
42 of 42
Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Which of you doth love us the most.
Back
WOYDLUTM - Lear introduces his trial of love between his daughters, incredibly vain.
Card 3
Front
Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty
Back
Card 4
Front
Of that same self metal.
Back
Card 5
Front
What shall Cordelia speak? Love and be silent
Back
Similar English Literature resources:
1.0 / 5 based on 2 ratings
0.0 / 5
1.5 / 5 based on 3 ratings
0.0 / 5
0.0 / 5
0.0 / 5
0.0 / 5
3.5 / 5 based on 3 ratings
0.0 / 5
4.0 / 5 based on 7 ratings
Comments
Report
Report