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Act 1 Sc 4 This moment marks the complete disregard of Goneril as Lear's daughter. He has no care or love for her at all. |
Suspend thy purpose if thou didnst intend to make this creature fruitful. Into her womb convey sterility |
-Intend -Creature -Womb |
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This quote shows how serious Lear is, for her would be aware of the powers of nature. |
Lear uses imagery drawn from nature to cast away Cordelia. He calls upon the 'sacred raidience of the sun' to bare witness in him disowning her. |
-Nature -Sacred -Witness |
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Lear mentions God in relation to Cordelia's death. Suggesting we are not to blame the Gods for her death, it is man to blame for the carnage of Act 5 |
Lear says it will take a 'brand from heaven' to part him and Cordelia |
-Heaven |
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Act 5 Sc 3 Lear struggles to accept Cordelia's death. Linked with Paul Cantor's argument. |
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou have no breath at all |
Animals |
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Critic Paul Cantor's comment |
"Here Lear heartbreakingly insists on the difference between a human and an animal, as Cordelia was living proof that humanity can rise against the beasts" |
Linked to 'Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and though have no breath at all' |
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Act 3 Sc 2 Lear is encouraging nature to send down an all mighty storm for him to encounter a catharsis x2 |
Blow winds and crack your cheeks! Rage, Blow, you cataracts and hurricanoes Rumble thy bellyful! Spit fire, spout rain |
-Blow -Rage -Rumble -Spit -Spout |
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Act 3 Sc 2 Lear suggests the Gods are in control of the storm |
Let the great Gods that keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads find out their enemies now |
-Punishment of the Gods |
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Act 3 Sc 4 Lears catharsis has begun and Shakespeare creates pathos within the audience. Is he possibly mad? |
In such a night to shut me out! Pour on; I will endure
In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your kind old father, whose frank heart gave all. O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; no more of that |
-Left in the storm by G + R
-Acceptance |
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Critic Aoife Discroll's comment |
"The storm shows us that the connection between man and beast is so strong that if the balance of one is disturbed, the balance of the other will be equally thrown" |
-What does the storm show us? -Balance of man and beast |
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Act 1 The Fool makes Lear aware of the authority he has lost by giving away his land and kingship |
Now thou art an O without a figure; I am better than thou art now. I am a fool, thou art nothing
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Act 1 Sc 4 - Fool: Shakespeare uses the flame as a metaphor for Lear's mental state. |
So out went the candle and we were left darkling |
His entry into madness are where his darkest hours will take place but it also indicates that Lears madness effects others by the use of the word 'we' |
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Act 1 Kents warning to Lear |
See better Lear! |
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Act 3 After being forced to see reality, Lear's cloting no longer represents power therefore he knows he has to rid himself of the trappings of majesty so that he can learn |
Off Off! You lendings! |
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Act 3 Lear asks himself what makes a man who he really is? Shakespeare is making the point that all men are reduced to nothing when you take away their clothing |
Is man no more than this |
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Critic Tennenhouse's comment |
"When Lear strips off his clothes to reveal himself as an 'unaccomodated man', Shakespeare boldly reveals the natural body of the king as one that appears to bare little value in its own right" |
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Act 4 Sc 1 Gloucester can 'see' again. He realises that he has only just regained insight. |
I stumbled when I saw |
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Act 4 Sc 7 Lear Wheel of Fire |
I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead |
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Critic A.C Bradley's comment |
The excrusion of Gloucester's eyes... an act too horrid to be endured |
Eyes |
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Critic G.Wilson Knight's comment |
It is a Christian play and supports Christian values |
Religion |
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Critic Paul Cantor's 2nd comment |
One arrives at a definition of man by finding the bare minimum one can still call human, and in that state a man is virtually indistinguishable from a beast |
One arrives... |
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Critic Alpers comment |
"Acts of vision and reference to eyes are notably present, but their function is not to symbolise moral insight; rather, they insist upon the ordinary, literal uses of eyes to express feelings, to weep and recognise others" |
-Acts of vision -Sight -Literal use of eyes |
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Critic Jonathan Goldberg's comment |
"In this fusion of plots and identities we have the mirror image, of everyman who has gone to every length to avoid hmself, caught at the moment of coming upon himself face to face" |
-Fushion -Every man |
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Act 2 Scene 2 Kent's evidence of the belief in the wheel of fortune |
Fortune, goodnight, smile once more, turn thy wheel |
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