King Lear Key Quotations (HARD)

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ITTKHMATDOATC - VERY FIRST LINE
Introduces plays main subject (the fickleness of Lear and his precarious decisions), prologue sets up a point of departure for the tragedy to spring from.
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WOYSWSDLUM? / TWOLBME / WNDWMC - Lear's desire for confirmation
Lear decides (afterthought) to assess his daughters merit based on how much they love him, his vanity demands professions to justify his decisions
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DTE-S, S, AL - Goneril lying
Goneril being sycophantic, use of endless concepts, eyesight significant??
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TSM... OSCTS.... IAAF / IYDHL - Regan goes further
Regan outdoes Goneril, hints at the rivalry yet to come, metal is cold, hard, alludes to their true nature
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NWCON. SA. | S, ISNMLMS / TLMFA. - C doesn't flatter Lear
Cordelia doesn't flatter Lear, ironically the only one who does love him, shows absurdity of G and E's love but Lear is blind to it
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CNBTDAHW - Lear hyperbole
Lear's hyperbolic description of himself, arrogance and pride.
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OWSR / TNAATATAK - Lear refuses to give up his title
Lear's refusal to give up his title, absurd, Divine right of kings?
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TCPBY - DIVISION IMAGE
Division, shows impossibility of him splitting the kingdom as a coronet would cease to exist, union of the crowns and opinion of a Jacobean audience?
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HR..... BON... - Lear's harmatia
Kent and Gloucester's description of Lears harmatia, Aristotelian tragedy and the five act structure
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GAOA - Cordelia on G and R
Goneril and Regan's true nature
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TSUWPCH - Cordelia on G and R
Clothing imagery throughout Lear, appearance v reality
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HHEBSKH.... TBASOHTHBBR - G and R on Lear
Goneril and Regan discuss Lear's weakness
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T, N, AMG; TTL / MSAB - Nature
Edmund as a machiavellian character? rejects the old gods and ways for humanistic ideals of the individual, prepares the audience for the villainy to come, Edmund breaks verse in this monologue emphasising the unnatural
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INBB, HLBW - Lands
Marxist interpretation??
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TLEITSAMPNGTU - Eclipses
Contextually thought that positions of stars etc represented good or bad fortune. Eclipses signified a break in the natural order of the world, sun and moon, day and night were seen as manifestations of ordered creation.
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TADMTK; HMBWO, / WLTBMSBTFAS. - Truth
Cordelia vs Regan and Goneril, Fools license
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TH-SFTCSL, / TIHIHBOBIY...... - Fool on G and R
Comparison of G and R to animals continues throughout the play, Jacobean idea of mind and body?
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HSTASTII / THATC - Serpent
Snake imagery, Eden?? James VI's True Law of Free Monarchies - only the viper strikes against its parent
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HFYEMPICT / STB, OWMWW - Albany, eyes pierce, Cordelia rephrases this at the end
Summation of Lear and Gloucester's flaw, lack of sight leading to downfall
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SSRAT, / LR, OBTHCA-T - Smiling rogues
Kent on people like Oswald who bite at the holy bonds between family, compares him to the Kingfisher who when hung up would turn its beak in the direction of the wind
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PT! PT! / TSY; EINA - Edgars realisaton of his situation
Edgar fallen lower than a beggar. Bedlam? societal structure and the treatment of the lower classes
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LGTHWAGWRDAH, LIBTN / WFI - Fools advice to Kent
Wheel of fortune imagery, relates to Lear and those who have abandoned him
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CNM, AGSAO, / TMIM - destruction of the world
Lear thought the social world was bound by laws similar to nature, now these have been destroyed he demands the destruction of nature
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HIS, YS, AP, I, WADOM.... IAAM / MSATS - Lear pathos
Within the climax of the play wherein Lear realises the truth about humanity and himself, storm is a macrocosm, pathos of the scene as we see Lear's first fall?
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TP,P / ETTFWWF / TTMSTSTT / ASTHMJ - superflux
Lear condemns those who live a life of luxury and demands they give their superfluous riches to the poor
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TTFB / TPD - Pelican
Pelican fed her young with blood from her breast, christian symbol of parents who loved their children too much
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IMNMTT? / UMINMBSAP, B, FA. O, O, YL! - Lear's epiphany
Lear hurls off his clothes at his realisation that man is nothing, clothes provide status
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OFABIGSV, ML / TIDHWGI - Flesh vile
Unnatural imagery
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BIWNSTCN / POHPOE, NTFS / IHAFSBF - Pluck out his eyes
Kings god given rights, Gloucester always loyal to Lear
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E, EATSON, / TQTHA - Gloucester pleads with Edmund
Gloucester begs Edmund to carry out revenge based on his nature, ironic
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YBT, AKTBC / TSCAF / TLAMDTOF / SSIE, LNIF / TLCIFTB - Edgar on the wheel of fortune
Edgar sums up the wheel of fortune, alludes to the plays even more tragic ending
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IHNWATWNE / ISWIS - Gloucester on his loss of sight
Similar to Lear, Gloucester gains what he didn't have when he supposedly loses it, he didn't have sight and now he does, Lear was unaware but in his madness has become enlightened to the reality of the world.
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AFTWBAWTTG / TKUFTS - Gloucester's despair
fatalism reflects Gloucesters despair, once had belief in the gods but no longer, pre-christian universe??
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AF, AAGAM / WRETH-LBWL - Albany on Lear
Albany on Goneril's treatment of Lear, contextual opinions on the old, increased pity for Lear
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TFMLA / D, ATMIHWHIMBETB / OWT - "Ay and no too was no good divinity"
Everyone flattered Lear till he became egocentric, James 5:12 reference??
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TTMIWE ; TAL, IA / NA-P - Ague
Told Lear what he wanted to hear
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WWAB, WCTWAC / TTGSOF - Stage
As you like it, no justice in the world, tears at the start of life are a foreshadowing for the later pain we suffer
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IAB / UAWOF, TMOT / DSLML - Tears
Wheel of fortune and Lear's immense sadness
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MAATTI ; TBT-M / DNBAS - Time and man
Machiavellian outlook, manipulates the situation for his own gain
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TTCSVDA / RAFGHA. PSWG / ATSLOJHB / AIIR, APSDPI
Treatment of lower societal classes as lower and beastly, clothing imagery used in Lear
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