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"When the mind's free the body's delicate; the tempest in my mind doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there- filial ingratitude!"
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Lear- when the mind is care free you focus on small bodily ailments.
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care free,focus,small ailments,Lear
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O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all- O that way madness lies; let me shun that; no more of that.
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He gave away everything he owned to his daughters and as a result is turning him mad but he resisting it.
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O I have ta'en too little care of this! Take physic,pomp; expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them and show the heavens more just.
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Lear- expose yourself to the hardships poor people have to contend with. He has not thought enough about this in the past.
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"Didst thou give all to thy daughters? And art thou come to this?"
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Lear to Edgar- The only conclusion he can come to that Edgar looks mad is that he must have given away everything to his daughters just like Lear did.
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"Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come, unbutton here." (Tears off clothes)
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Lear- Without civilisation humans are no more than an animal.(clothing)
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"His daughters seek his death. Aha, that good kent, he said it would be thus, poor banished man! Thou say'st the King grows mad. I'll tell thee, friend, I am almost mad myself. I had a son, now outlawed from my blood; he sought my life. But lately, very late, I loved him, friend, no father his son dearer."
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Prophetic Fantasy- Gloucester- sadness has made him crazy. He regrets his treatment of Edgar and tells Kent and an unaware Edgar unfortunately does not here him as he is talking to Lear separately.
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" I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find a dearer father to love."
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Cornwall says he will become a substitute father to Edmund who has just revealed the Gloucester is conspiring to commit treason.
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