King Lear - Key Themes
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- Key Themes
- NATURE
- 'accommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art'
- 'Who in the lusty stealth of nature...'
- 'Nature cannot reason it thus and thus'
- 'Which like an engine wenched my frame of nature'
- 'man's life is cheap as beasts'
- DISORDER AND CHAOS
- 'My lady's father'
- 'Dost thou call me a fool, boy'
- 'Bor'st thine *** on thy back'
- 'Monster, ingratitude'
- 'Thou would'st make a good fool '
- Women behaving like men (Goneril)
- Kent in the stocks
- 'Contending with fretful elements'
- 'Man's nature cannot carry th'affliction nor the fear'
- APPEARANCE VS REALITY
- 'Robes and fur gowns hide all'
- 'I other accents borrow... I razed my likeness'
- The fools ditties
- CLOTHING AND NAKEDNESS
- 'And with presented nakedness out face the winds and persecution of the sky'
- 'Unbonneted he runs'
- 'Poor Tom'
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- POWER AND DUTY
- 'Come not between the dragon and his wrath'
- 'I do serve you in business... a brother noble'
- 'Loyal and natural boy'
- 'My good lord'
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- JUSTICE
- SUFFERING
- CRUELTY
- 'As flies to wanton, are we to th'Gods; they kill us for their sport'
- 'Thy cruel nails'
- 'Pluck out his eyes'
- 'Vile Jelly'
- 'Shut up your doors my Lord, tis a wild night'
- AGE
- 'O Sir you are old'
- 'You should be ruled and led'
- 'I die old man'
- 'Thy bald crown'
- 'Old fools are babes again, and must be used with checks as flatteses'
- 'You see me here Gods, a poor old man'
- 'Thwart disnatured torment to her'
- 'To suffer with the body'
- 'A man more sinned against than sinning'
- 'Poor unfortunate beggar'
- CRUELTY
- 'Stars govern our conditions'
- 'All vengeance comes too short, which can pursue th'offenders'
- 'Thy dear judgement'
- 'Convey sterility'
- SUFFERING
- SIGHT
- 'I have no way, I therefore want no eyes, I stumbled when I saw'
- 'how far your eyes pierce I cannot tell'
- 'old fond eyes, I'll pluck ye out'
- 'Eyeless rage'
- Insight or Hindsight or Physical sight
- MADNESS
- NOTHING
- 'What shall Cordelia speak, love and be silent'
- 'Nothing my Lord'
- 'The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself. Let's see, come if it be nothing I shall not need specticals'
- 'Nothing can be made out of nothing
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- 'Tell me whether a madman be a yeomen or a gentlemen? A King! A King!'
- 'I will be the pattern of all patience, I will say nothing'
- 'Strive flat the rountality of the world'
- 'Who stocked my servant'
- 'O me, my heart, my rising heart, but down'
- 'I did her wrong'
- 'I'll resume the shape which thou dost think'
- Madder = more insight
- NOTHING
- Lear madder = more insight
- PARENT & CHILD RELATIONSHIPS
- 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child'
- 'I have another daughter'
- 'I never got him'
- BETRAYAL
- 'Look Sir, I bleed'
- 'We must do something and I'th'heat'
- Sisters, Edmund, Goneril's affair, Oswald and Kent
- RECONCILLIATION
- 'My father poorly led'? World, world world!'
- 'To put one's head in, not to give it away to his daughters and leave his horns without case'
- 'Deny to speak with me. They are sick, they are weary.'
- 'Yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter, or rather a disease that's in my flesh'
- 'In such a night to shut me out... your old kind father whose frank heart gave you all'
- 'An ample tear trilled down her delicate cheek'
- NATURE
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