1)Who says it?2)To whom?3)Meaning?”Old fond eyes/Beweep this cause again, I’ll pluck ye out/ And cast you, with the waters that you loose/ to temper clay” | 1) Lear2) Goneril3) Lear is so angry he could cry. He sees his mistakes (symbolism of blindness) |
“I did her wrong” | 1) Lear 2) Fool3) says about banishing Cordelia |
“Thou shouldst not have been old til thou hadst been wise” | 1) Fool2) Lear 3) Lear should be wise because he is old but he is just a fool (referring to banishing Cordelia) |
“Edgar, I am nothing” | 1) Edgar 2) Edgar 3) He is not himself anymore. He is a reduced to a lowly crazy beggar which is basically nothing. |
“I gave you all–“ | 1) Lear 2) Reagan and Goneril 3) Lear is saying that he gave his daughter everything so they should let him have his knights. |
“O, reason not the need!” | 1) Lear 2) Reagan and Goneril 3) He’s saying people have wants and he wants his knights. |
“Nothing will come of nothing” | 1) Lear 2) Cordelia 3) If she says nothing (about how much she loves lear) she will get nothing |
“So young and untender” | 1) Lear 2) Cordelia 3) |
“So young and true” | 1) Cordelia 2) Lear3) Cordelia is saying that by not pouring out her love for her father she is being true, because she will give half her love to her husband. |
“See better Lear” | 1) Kent 2) Lear3) When Lear banishes Kent |
“She is herself a dowry” | 1) France2) Lear3) France doesn’t care that she isn’t getting the land becasue she is fab |
“Yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself” | 1) Reagan 2) Goneril 3) He’s going senile. But then again he’s never really understood his own feelings very well. |
“I am a man more sinned against than sinning” | 1) Lear 2) Kent3) People do more wrong to him than he does to people |
“The younger rises when the old dath fall” | 1) Edmund 2) Edmund 3) When Glouc. dies Edmund will rise and take all the land and wealth. |
“Is man no more than this” | 1) Lear2) Fool/Edgar 3) S |
“and I’ll go to bed at noon” | 1) Fool 2) Lear and Kent3) last line of the fool in the play |
“Know, my name is lost” | 1) Edgar 2) Hearld/Albany/Edmund 3) Edgar has changed since the beginning of the play. Doesn’t know who he is anymore because he is no longer poor tom nor edgar. |
“I have no way and therefore want no eyes/I stumbled when I saw” | 1) Glouc.2) Old man3) I messed up when I had eyes so I don’t deserve them anymore. I’m so lost I don’t need eyes |
“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods/They kill is for their sport” | 1) Glouc.2)3) human life is insignificant (flies symbolize death) |
“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face” | 1) Albany 2) Goneril 3) you are the ultimate woat |
“they told me I was everything, tis a lie. I am not ague-proof” | 1) Lear 2) Glouc3) I am not a God, I am a mortal. I am no better than anyone else I am a normal person I can get sick too |
“let me wipe it first- it smells of mortality” | 1) Lear2) Cordelia 3) I’m no longer a king I am just a mortal |
“which of you shall we say loves us most” | 1) lear 2) daughters 3) which one of you loves us (lear and the country) most |
“Fortune, good night. Smile once more; turn they wheel” | 1) Kent2) Kent3) Hoping his life gets better |
“See’t thou shalt never,” | 1) Cornwall2) Glouc3) when he is plucking out his eyes |
“The worst returns to laughter” | 1) Edgar2) 3) things can only go up from here |
“The oldest hath borne most; we that are young shall never see so much nor live so long.” | 1) Edgar 2)3) young won’t understand the kind of pain Lear/Glouc went through until they are old |
King Lear Quotes
July 25, 2019