King Lear Quotes

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A Levels English Lit Flashcards on King Lear Quotes, created by Chelsea Hopi on 07/05/2015.
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Flashcards by Chelsea Hopi, updated more than 1 year ago
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Quotes on the theme of injustice 'the wheel is come full circle' 'our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous' 'upon a wheel of fire'
Quotes on the theme of insanity 'would I were assured of my condition' 'I never gave you kingdom, called your children' (Lear to the storm) 'O fool I shall go mad'
Quotes on the theme of disguises/truth 'I am much more than my out wall' (Kent) 'the most basest and poorest shape' (Edgar) 'draw, you rogue' (Kent to Oswald) Oswald has sword (A04 sumptuary laws)
Relationships and contrasts in the text *Clarity in madness - Lear (mad) , Gloucester (blind) *Letters - Edmund tricking Edgar with FALSE letter Edgar foiling Edmund with REAL letter *Madness - Lear (real madness) Edgar (Poor Tom: constructed madness)
Character Development quotes: King Lear 'what need you five and twenty? Ten? Or five?' 'I gave you all' (Reagan: 'And in good time you gave it') 'pelican daughters' His speech is more fragmented in his madness
Character Development Quotes: Edmund 'Both? One? Or neither?' - Doesn't care about either sisters 'Yet Edmund was beloved' - End of play
Character Development quotes: Albany 'humanity must perforce prey on itself like monsters of the deep'
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