How is betrayal important to the play? | -Causes Gloucester to fall and Edgar to fuk off-Lear to choose his other daughters over Cordelia-Lear to lose his kingdom |
3 Examples of Betrayal within the play? | -Edmund tricking Gloucester and Lear and daughters-Lear feeling this from Cordelia and Gloucester thinking this as well |
Quotes for Edmund tricking Gloucester and Edgar? | “thou art a traitor/False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father” |
Quotes for daughters betraying Lear? | “If it be you that stir these daughters’ heartsAgainst their father” |
Quotes for Cordelia betraying Lear? | “Barberous Scythian” |
Ways that betrayal is expressed? | -Use of allusion to Scythians who were savage and moralless-Motif of blindness Lear not saying Cordelia truth |
Quotes for Lear’s blindness? | orders her “out of [his] sight,” his pal, Kent, gives him the following advice: “See better, Lear” |
Quotes for Gloucester’s blindness? | “I have no way, and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw” |
King Lear (Betrayal)
July 18, 2019