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42 Cards in this Set
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King Lear says... when he begins to acknowledge fault
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“I am a man more sinned against than sinning”
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Goneril says Lear is...
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“Dearer than eyesight”
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Regan says this about her and Goneril's nature
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“Of that self-mettle as my sister"
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How much Cordelia loves Lear
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"According to my bond, no more, nor less"
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Kent tells Lear to... during first scene - ironic due to eyesight imagery.
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“See better, Lear"
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Regan speaks of Lear's mental health in the first scene
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"infirmity of his age"
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The culling of Lear's knights via questions
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“What need one?”
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Lear reveals the fact he blames filial ingratitude on all evil.
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“What, has his daughters brought him to this pass?”
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Lear speaks of Goneril and Regan's machiavellian nature - authority related, evil.
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“To say ‘ay’ and ‘no’ to everything that I said ‘ay’ and ‘no’ to was no good divinity.”
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Cordelia describes Lear's new crown - shows madness and loss of power
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“crowned with rank fumitor”
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Kent continues the wheel imagery - reveals the tragic inevitability and seeming cruelty of gods
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“turn thy wheel.”
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Edmond realises that... the imagery realises he has finished his cycle of nothing to nothing
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“The wheel is come full circle”
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Knight states that... - shows how the bleak and tragedy with no seeming answer is representative of mankind
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"the play is a microcosm of the human race"
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Cordelia says Lear is... - reveals Lear's full-fledged insanity
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“As mad as the vexed sea"
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Regan says... - reveals her abuse of power and potential lack of justice.
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“Hang him instantly"
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Cornwall says... before putting out one of Gloucester's eyes - reveals evil, sight imagery, power, lack of justice.
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"Out vile jelly"
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Gloucester reveals the seeming pointlessness in the evil and suffering which occurs from and in nature - not just man.
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“yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects”
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Edmond declares his new deity - reveals how nature and what is 'natural' must combat what is 'unnatural'
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"Thou, nature, art my goddess"
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Edmond makes his plea to the gods.
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"Now, gods, stand up for bastards!"
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Lear reveals weakness and feminine attributes into a strongly male role - shows his crumbling authority
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"Let not women’s weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man’s cheeks!" |
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Gloucester reveals the pointlessness and seeming cruelty of the Gods with the iconic quote from the play.
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"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport." |
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Lear reveals the extent of which Goneril and Regan have harmed him.
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"The tempest in my mind... Filial ingratitude!"
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Knight summarises the play
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"Exposure is the very essence of King Lear."
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Elton offers religious analysis
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"Shatters the foundations of faith itself"
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Orwell states how rejection plays a part
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"The subject of the play is renunciation"
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Knight focuses on the use of absurdist theatre - anti-climatic nature
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[takes] "our pity over the depths of bathos and absurdity"
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Bradley rejects the tragic flaw of hubris - offers another solution
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"if [Lear] didn't keep flying into rages, the tragedy would never have happened."
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Kott focuses on a historical and political based approach - looks at the cruelty both at the time and within the play to state:
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"there are only huge Renaissance monsters devouring one another"
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Ryan holds a postmodernist approach which focuses on the lack of justice and the lack of any solution
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"nothing comes of nothing... the world slides into an abyss"
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Cordelia describes Gonerill and Regan's speech as ... - reveals their Machiavellian nature
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"that glib and oily art"
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Gloucester reveals the concepts of fate and destiny by stating that the star signs ... - reveals theme in play and links into Aristotelian view of the tragedy
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"portend no good to us"
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Edmond speaks on Gloucester's use of evasion via astrology as being ... - reveals how he feels there is no concept of destiny - people have free will just try to conjure excuses
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"an admirable evasion of whoremaster man"
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Characters all use imagery of a ... to describe fate and destiny - shows the lack of free will and potential lack of justice
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"wheel"
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The Fool delivers a prophecy where he states that the world has ... but states that it shall become better - ... - reveals how the Fool predicts the outcome - is there no free will?
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"come to great confusion" + "whores do churches build."
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Lear states ... in the middle of the play - acknowledging descent into madness
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"my wits begin to turn."
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Kent questions towards the end of the play ... - reveals the potential lack of justice and goodness which exists (can refer to the Fool's prophecy)
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"is this the promised end?"
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When Gloucester's eyes are plucked out, Regan states ... - shows her abuse of power, evil
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"Let him smell his way to Dover"
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Gonerill says to Regan ... - shows the allegiance which they form - audience also sees their machiavellian nature for the first time.
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"Pray you, let us sit together"
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Lear warns Kent ... - shows Lear's power through imagery, also shows how flattery is greater than honesty in Lear's court
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"Come not between the dragon and his wrath"
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Lear states this as his first reason for dividing the kingdom - very selfish - highlights weakness, misuse of power.
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"To shake all cares"
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Lear questions ... - reveals how he intends to divide his kingdom - abuse of power, lack of justice, strength of flattery
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"Which of you... doth love us most?"
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Edgar says this towards the end of play - reveals his views on justice
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"the gods are just"
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