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Flashcards by Chelsea Hopi, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Chelsea Hopi
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Quotes on the theme of injustice | 'the wheel is come full circle' 'our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous' 'upon a wheel of fire' |
| Quotes on the theme of insanity | 'would I were assured of my condition' 'I never gave you kingdom, called your children' (Lear to the storm) 'O fool I shall go mad' |
| Quotes on the theme of disguises/truth | 'I am much more than my out wall' (Kent) 'the most basest and poorest shape' (Edgar) 'draw, you rogue' (Kent to Oswald) Oswald has sword (A04 sumptuary laws) |
| Relationships and contrasts in the text | *Clarity in madness - Lear (mad) , Gloucester (blind) *Letters - Edmund tricking Edgar with FALSE letter Edgar foiling Edmund with REAL letter *Madness - Lear (real madness) Edgar (Poor Tom: constructed madness) |
| Character Development quotes: King Lear | 'what need you five and twenty? Ten? Or five?' 'I gave you all' (Reagan: 'And in good time you gave it') 'pelican daughters' His speech is more fragmented in his madness |
| Character Development Quotes: Edmund | 'Both? One? Or neither?' - Doesn't care about either sisters 'Yet Edmund was beloved' - End of play |
| Character Development quotes: Albany | 'humanity must perforce prey on itself like monsters of the deep' |
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