| An analogy can be made between Lear battling the storm and what? | His daughters |
| Where has the French army landed? | Dover |
| What causes the unnatural severity of the storm? | The break in the natural order |
| How will the gentleman, who speaks to Kent about what has happened to Lear, identify himself to Cordelia? | The ring |
| Who becomes the new Earl of Gloucester? | Edmund |
| Who is the victim of a murderous plot? | Lear |
| By whom was the murderous plot done | Reagan, Goneril, and Cornwall |
| Lear believes the Edgar’s destitution is caused by whom? | His daughters |
| Reagan and Cornwall’s behavior toward Gloucester is unnatural because . . . | They’re in his house and he is older |
| What brings Lear understanding? | His misery |
| What two things represent treason in the new, unnatural world? | Kindness and honesty |
| Examples of unnatural behavior | Treatment of Gloucester, Edmund betraying his father, servants acting more noble than the nobles |
| Gloucester finally gains insight when . . . | he is blinded by Cornwall. |
| “Thou call’st on him that hates thee. It was he / That made the overture of thy treasons to us, / Who is too good to pity thee.” | Regan speaking of Edmund’s betrayal of Gloucsester |
| “But I shall see / The winged vengeance overtake such children.” | Gloucester’s foreshadowing words in scene 7 |
| “When we our betters see bearing our woes, / We scarcely think our miseries our foes, / Who alone suffers, suffers most i’ th’ mind, / Leaving free things and happy shows behind.” | Edgar on Lear’s current plight |
| “Then let them anatomize Regan. See what breeds about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts.” | Lear trying to learn why his daughters have turned on him. |
| “Bless thy five wits. My tears begin to take his part so much, / They’ll mar my counterfeiting.” | Edgar’s words following the Mock Trial |
| “True or False, it hath made thee Earl of Gloucester.” | Edmund reaches the top of the Wheel of Fortune. |
| “I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love.” | Cornwall to Edmund |
| “His daughters seek his death. Ah, that good Kent — / He said it would be thus, poor banished man. / Thou say’st the king grows mad. I’ll tell thee, friend, / I am almost mad myself.” | Gloucester compares his woes to those of Lear. |
| “Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. — / Off, off, you lendings! Come. Unbutton here.” | Lear expresses the plight of Edgar |
| “Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.” | Lear expresses pity on those who are less fortunate |
| “Wilt break my heart?”I had rather break mine own.” | Trust and loyal between Lear and Kent |
| “Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand / For lifting food to ‘t?” | Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. |
| “This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke / Instantly know, and of that letter too.” | Edmund’s betrayal |
| “Since I was man, / Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, / Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never / Remember to have heard.” | Natural occurrences (greatest storm ever) |
| “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! / You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout / Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!” | End of the world |
King Lear Act 3 Review
July 20, 2019