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“What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent” Cordelia’s asides show the contrast between her and her sisters, she speaks plainly and honestly. “I am sure my love’s more ponderous than my tongue” Shows that Regan and Gonerill are lying.…

Love, and be silent Cordelia says this in an aside while her sisters tell King Lear of their love for him. Cordelia realizes that love cannot be expressed in words and sees through her sisters’ shallow flattery. (I.i.68) And yet…

Lear aging king of Britain, protagonistused to enjoying absolute power and to being flattered,does not respond well to being contradicted or challenged wishes to maintain the power of a king while unburdening himself of the responsibility. Goneril Lear’s ruthless oldest…

Personification I am sure my love’s more ponderous than my tongue. Apostrophe Blow winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! Foreshadow Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides, Who covers faults at last with shame derides. Imagery The fishermen that…

Kent to Lear ‘You’ (after being asked ‘who wouldst thou serve?)’A man sir’ (after a query as to his identity) Oswald to Lear ‘My lady’s father’ Lear ‘Where’s my fool?’ (after saying ‘I will look further into’t’)’O Lear, Lear, Lear!…

1. Poor Cordelia. And yet not so, since I am sure my love’s more ponderous than my tongue. Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave my heart into my heart. 2. I love your majesty according to my bond, no…

KENT to Gentleman Sir, I do know you;And dare, upon the warrant of my note,Commend a dear thing to you. KENT to Gentleman But, true it is, from France there comes a powerInto this scatter’d kingdom; who already,Wise in our…

What drastic action is Juliet willing to take to avoid marrying Paris? suicide What is Friar Lawrence’s plan? she will drink a potion which will make her appear dead; Romeo will meet her in the burial tomb as she wakes…

The quarrel between the Capulets and the Montagues is old when the play opens True Gregory, a servent of the Capulets, starts a fight by thumbing his nose at a Montegue servent False Bevolio willingly joins the fray False Tybalt,…

What sacrifice does Juliet say she will make in order to be with Romeo? She will give up her family. What does Juliet fear will be the result of a relationship that is too quick? That it will have tragic…