King Lear, 1.3-4

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Act One, Scene Three. Gonerill to Oswald. Idea of tabula rasa, madness causing adults to revert back to childhood. Also hints at later themes- rebirth et cetera
"Old fools are babes again"
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Act One, Scene Four. Kent to Lear. Links to duty, Kent's continues to respect the King.
"Authority".
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Act One, Scene Four. Fool to Lear. Use of metephor represents Lear's error in dividing his kingdom.
"When thou clovest thy crown i'the middle, and gavest away both parts, thou borest thine *** on thy back o'er the dirt".
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Act One, Scene Four. Fool to Lear. Metephor represents children destroying parents- foreshadowing Goneril and Regan and Edmund
"The hedge sparrow fed the cuckoo so long that it's had it head bit off by it young".
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Act One, Scene Four. Lear to Gonerill. Biblical imagery, paralelling Gonerill to Satan. Theme of parental/filial relationships. Also, theme of sterility- lack of fertility in her depiction and in play
"...that she may feel how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child".
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Act One, Scene Four. Lear. Imagery foreshadows Gloucester's later punishment. Also acts as a metephor to convey Lear's refusal to see the truth/ to understand
"Old fond eyes...I'll pluck ye out..."
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Act One, Scene Four. Kent to Lear. Links to duty, Kent's continues to respect the King.

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"Authority".

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Act One, Scene Four. Fool to Lear. Use of metephor represents Lear's error in dividing his kingdom.

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Card 4

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Act One, Scene Four. Fool to Lear. Metephor represents children destroying parents- foreshadowing Goneril and Regan and Edmund

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Preview of the front of card 4

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Act One, Scene Four. Lear to Gonerill. Biblical imagery, paralelling Gonerill to Satan. Theme of parental/filial relationships. Also, theme of sterility- lack of fertility in her depiction and in play

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