King Lear - Super quotes

“What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent”

Cordelia Act 1 - Family, Justice,Gender

“Thy truth then be thy dower”

Social Hierarchy,Gender,Family Lear -Act 1

“why bastard? Wherefore base?”

Edmund Act 1 social hierarchy, family, fortune, identity

“I am better than thou art now. I am a Fool, thou art nothing”

The Fool Act 1 - Social hierarchy, Foolishness and madness, identity

“O, let me not be mad.”

Lear act 1 Foolishness and madness, identity

“Nothing almost sees miracles but misery.”

Kent act 2 - suffering and redemption, sight and blindness

“I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.”

Regan act 2, family, gender, social hierarchy

“I abjure all roofs, and choose To wage against enmity o’ the air.”

Lear act 2 Social hierarchy, power of nature

Thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter; Or rather a disease that’s in my flesh; Which i need call mine.”

Lear act 2 family, gender, social hierarchy, sight and blindness

“Touch me with noble anger,

And let not women’s weapons, water-drops,

Stain my man’s cheeks.”

Lear act 2 Gender, family

Contending with the fretful elements;

Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea.”

Gentleman act 3 - Power of nature, social hierarchy, foolishness and madness

“Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! Spout, rain!

Nor rain,wind,thunder,fire,are my daughters.”

Lear act 3 Power of nature, gender

“The younger rises when the old doth fall”

Edmund act 3 - family, fortune, social hierarchy

“Take physic, pomp;

Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.”

Lear act 3 social hierarchy, suffering and redemption, power of nature

“One side will mock the other - th’other too."

Regan act 3 Suffering and redemption, Justice, sight and blindness

“The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune

Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear.”

Edgar act 4 Suffering and redemption, fortune, identity

“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind

Blows in your face.”

Albany act 4 justice, power of nature, sight and blindness

“No blown ambition doth our arms incite,

But love, dear love, and our aged father’s right.”

Cordelia act 4 Justice, social hierarchy, gender , identity

“Thy life’s a miracle. Speak yet again.”

Edgar act 4 suffering and redemption, family

“through tatter’d clothes great vices do appear;

Robes and furr’d gowns hide all.”

Lear act 4 Justice, social hierarchy, sight and blindness

“Men must endure

Their going hence even as their coming hither.

Ripeness is all.”

Edgar act 5 Suffering and redemption, justice, hierarchy

“his flawed heart.

Alack, too weak the conflict to support,

‘Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,

Burst smilingly.”

Edgar act 5 suffering and redemption

“I was contracted to them both’ all three

Now marry in an instant.”

Edmund act 5 social hierarchy, gender, justice

“If fortune brag of two she loved and hated,

One of them we behold.”

Kent act 5 fortune, suffering and redemption