King Lear Notes

Kent

• Criticizes Lear's "hideous rashness".
• Implores Lear to "see better".
• Exclaims, "TILK TIGIC LU STOW VESIOUS OT le page with unmerged change".

Reagan

• Claims to be "made of the self metal".
• States, "I find she names my very deed of love, but she comes too short".
• Notes that Lear "hath ever sat slenderly known himself".

Goneril

• Urges others to "hit together".
• Professes, "Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter".
• Remarks that "the best and soundest of his time hath been out rash".

Key Points

• Lear is deeply flawed.
• He is gullible, arrogant, and morally blind.