king lear quiz

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cordelia

unhappy i am, i cannot heave my heart into my mouth: i love your majesty according to my bond; nor more nor less.

kent

let it fall rather, through the fork invade the religion of my heart: be kent unmannerly, when lear is mad. what wilt thou do, old man? think’st thou that duty shall have dread to speak, when power to flattery bows? to plainness honor’s bound. when majesty stoops to folly. reverse thy doom; and, in thy best consideration, check this hideous rashness: answer my life to judgement, thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty hearted whose low sound reverbs no hollowness.

cordelia

the jewels of our father, with washed eyes cordelia leaves you: i know what you are; and like a sister am most loath to call your faults as they are named. use well our father: to your professed bosoms i commit him. but yet, alas, stood i within his grace, i woild prefer him to a better place. so, farewell to you both.

king lears children

cordelia, goneril, regan

goneril is married 2

albany

regan is married 2

cornwall

cordelia marries

france

which son is the bastard

edmund

which son is legitimate

edgar

themes in play

preference, reversal, nothing

more themes

blindness is wisdom, monsters = women

major theme

reversal