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69 Cards in this Set
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"Tis the infirmity of his age; yet hath he ever but slenderly known himself."
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Regan: Act 1, Scene 1
was lear already mad\ losing his mind? |
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"I am better than thou art now; I am a fool and thou art nothing."
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Fool: Act 1, Scene 4
Lear has given EVERYTHING away |
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"It is the stars, the stars above that govern our conditions."
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Kent: Act 4, Scene 3
Faith in the gods and fate to control the events |
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"Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed and my invention thrive, Edmund the base shall top the legitimate."
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Edmund: Act 1, Scene 2
role reversal |
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"Women all turn monsters."
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Servant: Act 3, Scene 7
Feminist: anti-women obv. - showing that women shouldn't have power |
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"Out, vile jelly!"
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Cornwall: Act 3, Scene 7
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"Thou madest thy daughters thy mother."
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Fool: Act 1, Scene 4
role reversal |
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"Nothing."
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Cordelia: Act 1, Scene 1
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"Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again."
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Lear: Act 1, Scene 1
arrogant - HUBRIS |
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"I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty according to my bond; no more nor less."
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Cordelia: Act 1, Scene 1
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"I am sure my love's more richer than my tongue."
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Cordelia: Act 1, Scene 1
Actions speak louder than words? |
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"The wheel is come full circle; I am here."
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Edmund: Act 5, Scene 3
Fate - getting what you deserve for your actions |
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"Love, and be silent."
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Cordelia: Act 1, Scene 1
actions over words |
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"...They'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt have me whipped for lying, and sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace."
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Fool: Act 1, Scene 4
literally the definition of tragedy - you're punished for doing evil, you're punished for doing good, you're punished just because |
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"Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father a child-like office."
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Cornwall: Act 2, Scene 1
Ironic |
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"How light and portable my pain seems now, when that which makes me bend makes the king bow."
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Edgar: Act 3, Scene 6
true madness vs fake |
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"Loyal and natural boy..."
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Gloucester: Act 2, Scene 1
ironic - Edmund is neither |
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"My point and period will be thoroughly wrought, or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought."
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Kent: Act 4, Scene 7
highlighting the climax |
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"I know you do not love me; for your sisters have, as I do remember, done me wring. You have some cause, they do not."
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Lear: Act 4 Scene 7
realising he's been a dick |
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"Thou art a soul in bliss; I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead."
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Lear: Act 4, Scene 7
religious imagery - hell for sins, heaven for virtue |
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"You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me; let not my worser spirit tempt me again to die before you please."
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Gloucester: Act 4, Scene 6
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"I am even the natural fool of fortune."
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Lear: Act 4, Scene 6
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"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us."
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Edgar: Act 5, Scene 3
Wheel of fate has fixed |
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"This judgement of the heavens, that makes us tremble."
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Albany: Act 5, Scene 3
insignificance of man to the powers of the gods |
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"Into her womb convey sterility."
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Lear: Act 1, Scene 4
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"Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say."
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Edgar: Act 5, Scene 3
power of words\ language |
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"I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; my master calls me; I must not say no."
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Kent: Act 5, Scene 3
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"Nothing, my lord."
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Cordelia: Act 1, Scene 1
Edmund: Act 1, Scene 2 |
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"Howl."
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Lear: Act 5, Scene 3
inhuman in his grief |
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"My wits begin to turn."
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Lear: Act 3, Scene 2
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"I grow; I prosper. Now, gods, stand up for bastards."
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Edmund: Act 1, Scene 2
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"I would not see thy cruel nails pluck out his poor old eyes."
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Gloucester: Act 3, Scene 7
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"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."
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Gloucester: Act 4, Scene 1
power of gods |
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"Why brand they us with base? With baseness? Bastardy? Base, base?"
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Edmund: Act 1, Scene 2
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"When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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Lear: Act 4, Scene 6
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"Why I do trifle thus with his despair is done to cure it."
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Edgar: Act 4, Scene 6
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"O you mighty gods! This world I do renounce."
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Gloucester: Act 4, Scene 6
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"I am a man more sinned against than sinning."
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Lear: Act 3, Scene 2
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"I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find in a dearer father in my love."
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Cornwall: Act 3, Scene 6
role reversal\ change -> Edmund is illegitimate of Gloucester AND Cornwall |
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"The tempest in my mind."
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Lear: Act 3, Scene 4
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"Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord, that it doth hate what gets it."
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Gloucester: Act 3, Scene 4
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"I am come to bid my king and master aye good night."
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Kent: Act 5, Scene 3
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"Crack nature's molds."
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Lear: Act 3, Scene 2
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"I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; if it be man's work, I'll do it."
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Captain: Act 5, Scene 3
do anything for money -> negative view of the poor\ serving class |
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"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child."
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Lear: Act 1, Scene 4
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"The younger rises when the old doth fall."
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Edmund: Act 3, Scene 3
role reversal |
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"The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, that it had it head bit off by it young."
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Fool: Act 1, Scene 4
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"Edgar, I nothing am."
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Edgar: Act 2, Scene 4
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"Dearer than eyesight."
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Goneril: Act 1, Scene 1
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"I am made of that self mettle as my sister... Only she comes too short."
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Regan: Act 1, Scene 1
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"See better, Lear, and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye."
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Kent: Act 1, Scene 1
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"This heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad."
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Lear: Act 2, Scene 4
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"O, reason not the need. Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous."
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Lear: Act 2, Scene 4
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"What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?"
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Lear: Act 3, Scene 4
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"Fortune, goodnight, smile once more; turn thy wheel."
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Kent: Act 2, Scene 3
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"Thou call's on him that hates thee."
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Regan: Act 3, Scene 7
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"Let not women's weapons, water-drops, stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags!"
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Lear: Act 2, Scene 4
feminist reading |
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"Let this kiss repair those violent harms that my two sisters have in thy reverence made."
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Cordelia: Act 4, Scene 7
power of 'good' |
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"Tis our fast intent to shake all cares and business from our age, conferring them on younger strengths, wile we unburthened crawl toward death."
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Lear: Act 1, Scene 1
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"Unfriended, new adopted to our hate, dowered with our curse."
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Lear: Act 1, Scene 1
*Feminist: A woman is nothing without marriage - Need a good dowry to get a good marriage match - She is very unlikely to get anyone now - wouldn't have been able to work for a living - essentially condemning her to suffering and death |
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"Must change arms at home and give the distaff into my husband's hands."
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Goneril: Act 4, Scene 2
role reversal |
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"But to the girdle do the gods inherit, beneath is all the fiends."
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Lear: Act 4, Scene 6
negative to women |
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"You see me here you gods... Touch me with noble anger..."
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Lear: Act 2, Scene 4
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"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!"
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Lear: Act 3, Scene 2
*Lear harnesses the power of the storm |
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"Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit..."
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Edmund: Act 1, Scene 2
* Power of language |
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"Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; robes and furred gowns hide all."
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Lear: Act 4, Scene 6
class difference -> the rich can hide their sins, the poor cannot |
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"Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks
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Lear: Act 4, Scene 6
no justice against the rich and powerful |
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"I will maintain my truth and honour firmly."
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Edmund: Act 5, Scene 3
*IRONIC |
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"Edmund, pray you be careful."
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Gloucester: Act 3, Scene 3
*Edmund isn't the one he should be worried about *Even though he's illegitimate it is obvious Gloucester cares for him - Makes E's actions against G more cruel |
