| Gloucester when blind | I stumbled when first I saw |
| Kent 1.1 | see better Lear |
| Knight about King Lear | he blasts with eyeless rage |
| Lear in storm | this tempest in my mind doth from my senses take all feeling else |
| Regan blinding Gloucester | out vile jelly!one side will mock t’otherlet him smell his way to Dover |
| Cordelia hinting that she sees the brewing Machiavellian in her sisters | with washed eyes Cordelia leaves you |
| Goneril in love-test | I do love thee dearer than eyesight |
| Goneril about Lear 1.1 | he hath ever but slenderly known himself |
| Lear’s misunderstanding of Cordelia’s ‘nothing’ | let pride which she calls plainness marry her |
| Fool saying Lear should use all of his senses, with particular emphasis on sight | to keep one’s eyes on either side’s nose, that what a man cannot smell out he may spy into |
| Lear expresses a desire for equality in his prayer, and then later Gl does the same, but both only when they have lost everything | expose thyself to feel what wretches feel…shake the superflux to them / And show the heavens more justso distribution should undo excess / And each man have enough |
| Gl (now blind) says that he is lost, so there’s no point in being able to see | I have no way, and therefore want no eyes |
| Albany –> Gon, saying she can’t see herself properly | see thyself devil |
| Albany says that Gon being a woman is protection in their society | howe’er thou art a fiend, a woman’s shape doth shield thee |
King Lear quotes – perception/sight
July 31, 2019