| 3/2: I am a man More sinned against than sinning. | Justice: King Lear |
| 1/4: Truth’s a dog must to kennel. | Justice: Analogy/Aphorism: Fool |
| 1/2: Now, gods, stand up for bastards! | Justice: Edmund |
| 4/1: As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. | Justice: Simile/Hyperbaton: |
| 1/1: We have no such daughter. | Appearance vs Reality: Hyperbole: King Lear (about Cordelia) |
| 1/4: Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. | Appearance vs Reality: Aphorism: Fool (to Lear) |
| 1/1: Yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself. | Appearance vs Reality: Regan (about Lear) |
| 1/2: we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars, | Appearance vs Reality: Analogy: Edmund |
| 1/1: Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides. | Appearance vs Reality: Foreshadowing: Cordelia |
| 1/1: Well may you prosper. | Appearance vs Reality: Sarcasm: Cordelia (to Goneril and Regan) |
| Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter. | Appearance vs Reality: Hyperbole: Goneril |
| 1/1: Nothing can come of nothing: speak again. | Chaos vs Authority: Aphorism: King Lear |
| 3/3: The younger rises when the old doth fall. | Chaos vs Authority: Aphorism: Edmund |
| 2/3: ‘Edgar’ I nothing am. | Chaos vs Authority: Hyperbaton: Edgar |
| 4/1: ‘Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind. | Chaos vs Authority: Aphorism: Gloucester |
| 4/7: I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. | Compassion & Reconciliation: Simile: King Lear (to Cordelia) |
| 5/3: Thou’st spoken right. ‘Tis true. The wheel is come full circle. I am here. | Compassion & Reconciliation: Aphorism/Metaphor: Edmund(to Edgar) |
| 3/2: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness. | Nature: Apostrophe: King Lear (to Storm) |
| 1/2: These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. | Nature: Foreshadowing: Gloucester |
| 1/2: Thou, Nature, art my goddess. | Nature: Edmund |
| 1/4: How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child. | Betrayal/Vengeance: Analogy: King Lear (about Goneril) |
| 2/4: But for all this thou shalt have as many dolors for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year.(dolors: money/pain) | Betrayal/Vengeance: Pun: Fool |
| 3/7: Thou call’st on him that hates thee. | Betrayal/Vengeance: Regan (to Glocester) |
| 4/6: A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. | Blindness: Aphorism: King Lear |
| 4/1: Bless thy sweet eyes, they bleed. | Blindness: Double meaning/Metaphor: Edmund (to Gloucester) |
| 4/1: I have no way, and there want no eyes. | Blindness: Metaphor: Gloucester |
| 2/4: there’s not a nose among twenty but can smell him that’s stinking. | Blindness: Metaphor: Fool |
| 1/1: See better, Lear; and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye. | Blindness: Metaphor: Kent |
| 1/1: Come not between the dragon and his wrath. | Madness/Deterioration: Metaphor: King Lear (to Kent) |
| 1/4: Thou hast pared thy wit o’ both sides and left nothing in the middle. | Madness/Deterioration: Fool (to Lear) |
| 1/3: Old fools are babes again. | Madness/Deterioration: Aphorism: Goneril |
| 2/3: I will (…) take the basest and most poorest shape. | Madness/Deterioration: Edgar |
| 5/3: We two alone will sing like birds in the cage. | Parent & Child: Aphorism: King Lear (to Cordelia) |
| 1/4: The hedge sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had it head bit off by its young. | Parent & Child: Metaphor: Fool |
| 2/1: My old heart is cracked; it’s cracked. | Parent & Child: Amplification: Gloucester (about Edgar) |
King Lear: Quotes, Themes and Literary Devices
July 14, 2019