| to demonstrate the evil of Goneril and Regan’s unnatural power | “the laws are thine and not mine, who can arraign me for it?””change names at home…give the distaff”cruel… “what need of one” |
| Lear’s identity crisis | “who is it that can tell me who I am” “Lear’s shadow””crowned with furrow weeds””coining. I am the King himself” |
| misogynistic attacks of female power | Lear- “darkness and devils””unnatural hags””sea monster…sharper than a serpent’s tooth”Albany- “proper deformity shows not in the fiend so horrid as in woman” “changed and self covered thing””blood, dislocate and tear thy flesh and bones””most monstrous! O!” |
| Lear’s attitude to the feminine | “woman’s weapons…stain my man’s cheeks””hot tears shake my manhood thus” |
| Lear’s powerlessness | Aposiopesis “I will do such things- what they are yet I know not” |
| Clarity or truth is presented when material wealth is abandoned | “naked wretches”…”expose myself to feel what wretches feel”… “off thy lendings””money for thee””laugh at gilded butterflies””learned theban” |
| Lear’s blindness | … |
| Gloucester’s blindness | … |
King Lear Quotes
July 2, 2019