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21 Cards in this Set
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"Nothing will come..." |
"..of nothing: speak again." -Lear |
Act 1 Scene 1 |
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"When we are born..." |
"...we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." - Lear
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Stage of life |
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"Come not between..." |
"...the dragon and his wrath." -Lear |
Anger |
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"How sharper than..." |
"...a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." -Lear |
snake |
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"Why should a dog..." |
"...a horse, and a rat have life, and thou no breath at all?" -Lear
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Cordelia's death |
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"Away! By..." |
"...Jupiter, this shall not be revoked." -Lear |
God of sky and thunder |
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"Old fond eyes..." |
"...Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out." -Lear |
Foreshadowing |
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"Our basest.." |
"...beggars are in the poorest things superfluous." -Lear
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The poor are rich |
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"Why nature needs not..." |
"...what thou gorgeous wear'st, which scarcely keeps thee warm." -Lear
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Clothes aren't practical |
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"Off..." |
"...off, you lendings!" -Lear |
Naked Lear |
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"Sir, 'tis my..." |
"...occupation to be honest." -Kent |
Plain spoken |
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"The hedge sparrow..." |
"...fed the cuckoo so long it had its head bit off by its young." -Fool |
Cuckoo |
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"Why, to keep one's eyes..." |
"...on either side's nose, that what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into." -Fool
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Smell out the truth |
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"As flies..." |
"...To wanton boys as we to the gods, they kill us for their sport." -Gloucester |
Pocket God |
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"Love cools, friendship..." |
"...falls off, brothers divide, in cities mutinies, in countries discord, in palaces treason, and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father." |
prophecy |
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"I have no way..." |
"..and therefore want no eyes, I stumbled when I saw." -Gloucester |
Blindness |
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"Time shall..." |
"...unfold what plighted cunning hides." -Cordelia
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Prophecy |
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"Thou nature..." |
"...art my Goddess" -Edmund |
Gods |
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"This is the excellent foppery...." |
"...of the world that when we are sick in fortune- often the surfeit of our own behaviour- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity." |
Fate |
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"Let him smell..." |
"...his way to Dover." -Regan |
White cliffs |
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"Dearer than..." |
"...eyesight, space and fortune." -Goneril |
ESF ski school |
