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“Detested… kite” “Sir I am made of that self same mettle as my sister… only she comes too short” “Pelican… daughters” “sea… monsters” “Degenerate… Bastards” “We must do something and… in the heat” ” dearer than… eyesight,space and liberty” “What…

Act 1 Scene 1 – Lear ” we shall express our darker purpose”” which if you shall we say doth love us most?”” unburdened crawl toward death” Act 1 scene 1 – Cordelia ” what shall Cordelia speak? Love and…

Theme: Power “[…] and ’tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; conferring them on younger strengths, while we unburthen’d crawl toward death” (Act 1 Scene 1)Imagery: Lear conjures an image of a feeble old…

Discuss Hurston’s use of structure in her novel. Consider narration, point of view and type of novel as a part of this question. Hurston purposefully uses narration and point of view in Their Eyes Were Watching God as a tool…

LEAR. Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again. The two daughters who end up getting the entire kingdom by professing their deep love for their father actually have no feeling for him at all. They feel “nothing” and their words…

Lear’s tragic question “Which of you shall we say doth love us most?” Cordelia’s final lines “We are not the first, who with best meaning, have incurred the worst” quotes about Cordelia’s lips “thy médecine on my lips” / “ripe…

overview Lear, the aging king of Britain, decides to step down from the throne and divide his kingdom evenly among his three daughters. First, however, he puts his daughters through a test, asking each to tell him how much she…

Lear is king of what country?FranceBritainEast AngliaScotland Britain Which one of Lear’s daughters is sent into exile?GonerilReganCordeliaJuliet Cordelia Which one of Lear’s counselors reprimands the king for exiling his daughter?AlbanyKentCornwallEdmund Kent Who is Gloucester’s bastard son?KentEdgarAlbanyEdmund Edmund When Lear visits…

Kent (in disguise) ‘A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the king’ Lear I have perceived a most faint neglect of late’ Fool ‘Thou’lt catch a cold shortly…..this fellow has banished two on’s daughters, and did the third a…

So we’ll live, and pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies Lear has found inner contentment and has become a more spiritual being in the presence of Cordelia. False to thy gods, thy brother and…