HW&R Final Review - King Lear Quote Matching

4 of the 14 quotes on this flashcard set will be used for quote matching. The rest will be seen on the final

Who says the following? “This is the excellent foppery of the world that when we are sick in fortune... we make guilty of our disasters the sun the moon, and stars...and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on”

Edmund - He’s stating how people are stupid for believing the gods and the universe for the evil in the world

Who says the following? “If our father would sleep till I waken him, you should enjoy half his revenue forever and live the beloved of your brother Edgar”

Read by Gloucester, written by Edmund - Was the false letter Edmund forged to conspire against Edgar

Who says the following? “Now gods, stand up for bastards!”

Edmund - Support the illegitimate

Who says the following? “Loyal and natural boy, I’ll work the means / To make thee capable.”

Gloucester - He grants trust and gratitude to Edmund for “warning” about Edgar’s supposed betrayal

Who says the following? “Why have my sisters husbands, if they say they love you all?”

Cordelia - What’s the point in Goneril and Regan having their husbands if they both say they love Lear? Cordelia knows her sisters are exaggerating their love for Lear

Who says the following? “No blown ambition doth our arms incite / But love, dear love, and our aged father’s right”

Cordelia - Speaking about how France is not engaged in war with Britain out of hatred or ambition to conquer, but rather out of love for her father

Who says the following? “Fetch forth the stocks, ho!--- / You stubborn, ancient knave, you reverend braggart / We'll teach you."

Cornwall - Referring to Kent, is ready to place him in the stocks after he offending him

Who says the following? “I am a man / More sinned against than sinning.”

Lear - Says how he has been punished more than punishing others

Who says the following? "Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me, / the king my old master must be relieved"

Gloucester - Speaking to Edmund. Although he was being punished for helping Lear, he does so anyways no matter the cost (loyalty)

Who says the following? “Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”

The Fool - Advises Lear he shouldn’t have relinquished his power before he had become wise in both age and knowledge

Who says the following? “The tempest in my mind / Doth from my senses take all feeling else / Save what beats there: filial ingratitude. /...But I will punish home. / No, I will weep no more”

Lear - Compares the chaos of the storm to the chaos in Lear’s mind

Who says the following? “Nothing could have subdued nature / To such a lowness but his unkind daughters”

Lear - Speaking about how Edgar (disguised as Poor Tom) couldn’t have reached such an unstable state in any other way besides being betrayed by his daughters (makes it seem that betrayal from daughters is normal)

Who says the following? "One way I like this well. / But being widow, and my Gloucester with her, / May all the building in my fancy pluck / Upon my hateful life."

Goneril - She contemplates on how she’s glad that Cornwall is dead, but is afraid that Edmund and Regan could marry together, shattering her dreams of being with him

Who says the following? “I have no way, and therefore want no eyes / I stumbled when I saw”

Gloucester - Even though he had eyes, he was unable to realize the truth. Now there is no way he can see anything, so what’s the point of eyes at all