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Quotes

|Ref. (A.S.L) |Quote |Techniques |Effects |Themes |

|5.3.296 |“My Master calls me. I must not say no.” - Kent |-High modality. |-Shows Kent’s belief that his sole purpose is to |-Loyalty |

| | | |server Lear. | |

|1.5.5 |“I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered you |-Exaggeration |-Shows Kent’s dedication to duty. |-Loyalty |

| |letter” - Kent | | | |

|1.1.91-93 |“You have begot me, bred me, loved me. I return those|-Repetition |-Demonstrates Cordelia’s daughterly love as well as |-Loyalty |

| |duties back as are right fit, obey you, love you, and |-Contrast |her rational thought. | |

| |most honour you.” – Cordelia |-2nd person | | |

|3.7.92-93 |“Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell his way| |-Is an example of Regan’s evil nature |-Chaos |

| |to Dover” – Regan | | |-Blindness |

|1.2.137 |“Some villain hath done me wrong” - Edgar |-Dramatic irony |-Demonstrates Edmond’s scheming |-Blindness |

|2.3.9-10 |“My face I’ll grime with filth, blanket my loins, elf |-Descriptive language |-Describes Edgar’s Tom O’Bedlam costume. |Cyclic universe (the beginning) |

| |all my hairs in knots, and with presented nakedness | | |-Chaos |

| |outface the winds and persecutions of the sky.” - | | | |

| |Edgar | | | |

|2.3.21 |“That’s something yet: Edgar I nothing am” - Edgar |-Contrast |-Shows Edgar adopting his new persona |-Cyclic Universe (the beginning) |

| | |-Irony | |-Madness |

|3.4.44-48 |Edgar: “Away, the foul fiend follows me. Through the |-Alliteration “foul fiend follows” |-Explains Lear’s pain. |-Destruction |

| |sharp hawthorn blow the winds. Humh! Go to thy bed |-Juxtaposition “winds… warm” | |-Madness |

| |and warm thee.” |-Rhetorical Questions | | |

| |Lear: “Didst thou give all to thy daughters? And art | | | |

| |thou come to this? | | | |

|3.6.6-7 |Edgar: “Frateretto calls me, and tells me Nero is an |-Metaphor |-Warns Lear of evils by comparing him to a bad king. |-Chaos |

| |angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and |-Alliteration (foul fiend) | | |

| |beware the foul fiend.” |-Superstition/Paganism | | |

| | |(Frateretto = a dancing demon. Nero is an | | |

| | |angler in the lake of darkness = Nero, a | | |

| | |villainous Roman Emperor, is damned in | | |

| | |hell.) | | |

|4.2.74-75 |Edgar: “Give me thy arm. Poor Tom shall lead thee.” |- |-Shows the leader that is Edgar |-Cyclic universe (Edgar returning to |

| | | | |be Edgar) |

|4.5.166-167 |Edgar: “O matter and impertinency mixed, reason in |-Aside |-Shows Edgar realising the chaos of the kingdom. |-Chaos |

| |madness.” |-Juxtaposition | |-Madness |

|4.5.240-242 |Edgar: “I know thee well [Oswald] – a serviceable |-Negative tone |-Shows Edgar’s disgust for Oswald and Goneril |-Loyalty |

| |villain, as duteous to the vices of thy mistress as |-Contrast (duteous…as badness would desire) |(possibly Regan also) | |

| |badness would desire.” |-Juxtaposition (serviceable villain) | | |

|5.3.123-125 |Edgar: “thou [Edmond] art a traitor: false to thy |-Repetition “thy” |-Shows Edgar’s hate towards Edmond |-Cyclic Universe |

| |gods, thy brother, and thy father, conspirant ‘gainst | | |-Loyalty |

| |this high illustrious prince” | | | |

|5.3.159-161 |Edgar: “My name is Edgar, and thy [Edmond’s] father’s|-Religious inference |-Demonstrates Edgar’s confidence |-Cyclic Universe |

| |son. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices | | | |

| |make instruments to plague us.” | | | |

|5.3.297-300 |Edgar: “The weight of this sad time we must obey, |-Didactic |-Shows Edgar taking control |-Cyclic Universe |

| |speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The | | | |

| |oldest hath borne most; we that are young shall never | | | |

| |see so much, nor live so long. | | | |

|5.3.163-164 |Edmond: “Th’hast spoken right; ‘tis true. The wheel |-Metaphor |-Edmond admits his evilness |-Cyclic Universe |

| |is come full circle; I am here.” | | | |

|5.3.27-34 |Edmond: “Come hither, captain. Hark. Take thou this|-Metaphor |-Edmond forcefully convinces the captain to follow |-Destruction |

| |note. Go follow them to prison. One step I have |-Aggressive tone |his evil plan of hanging Cordelia and making it look | |

| |advanced thee; if thou dost as this instructs thee, | |like suicide. | |

| |thou dost make thy way to noble fortunes. Know thou | | | |

| |this: that men are as the time is; to be tender-minded| | | |

| |does not become a sword. Thy great employment will | | | |

| |not bear question: either say thou’lt do’t, or thrive | | | |

| |by other means.” | | | |

|1.4.183 |Fool: “May not an ass know when the cart draws the |-Metaphor |-Shows Lear’s foolishness for not knowing that he is |-Order/Disorder |

| |horse?” |-Rhetorical question |now dependent on his daughters rather than them on |-Blindness |

| | | |him. | |

|1.5.15-19 |Fool: “Thou canst tell why one’s nose stand |-Humour |-Shows Lear’s foolishness for not spying trouble with|-Order/Disorder |

| |I’th’middle on’s face?” |-Metaphor |his daughters earlier. |-Deceit/Disguise |

| |Lear: “No.” | | |-Blindness |

| |Fool: “Why, to keep one’s eyes of either side ‘s | | | |

| |nose, that what a man cannot smell out, he may spy | | | |

| |into.” | | | |

|1.5.23-26 |Fool: “I can tell you why a snail has a house.” |-Metaphor |-Shows more blatantly Lear’s foolishness for letting |-Order/Disorder |

| |Lear: “Why?” | |his daughters overrun him. |-Blindness |

| |Fool: “Why, to put ‘s head in, not to give it away to| | | |

| |his daughters, and leave his horns without a case.” | | | |

|1.5.37-38 |Lear: “O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! |-Repetition |-Possibly shows that Lear is indeed going mad |-Chaos |

| |Keep me in temper, I would not be mad.” | | |-Madness |

|1:1:8-9 |Gloucester: “I have so often blushed to acknowledge |-Medias res (beginning amidst a |-Gains audience attention |-Order/Disorder |

| |him, that now I am brazed to’t.” |conversation) |And thrusts them straight into the plot. | |

| | |-Tone |-Identifies Gloucester’s lack of family values, and | |

| | | |ignorance to his sons. | |

|1:2:23-26 |Gloucester: “Kent banished thus? And France in choler|-rhetorical questions |-expresses Gloucester’s shock of the night’s events |-Order/Disorder |

| |parted? And the king gone tonight? Prescribed his |-repetition of “and” | |-Chaos |

| |power, Confined to exhibition? All this done Upon the | | |-Blindness |

| |gad?” | | | |

|1:2:34-35 |Gloucester: “Come, if it be nothing, I shall not need |-pun |-demonstrates Gloucester being easily manipulated, |-Deceit/Disguise |

| |spectacles” |-irony |due to his condescending attitude towards Edmond. |-Blindness |

|1:2:68-70 |Gloucester: “O villain, villain – his very opinion in|-repetition |-demonstrates Gloucester being easily manipulated |-Blindness |

| |the letter! Abhorred villain, unnatural, detested, |-irony (dramatic) |again. |-Deceit/Disguise |

| |brutish villain – worse than brutish!” | |-Shows his easily swaying opinion of his sons. |-Chaos |

|2:2:128 |Gloucester: “Let me beseech your grace not to do so |-flattery |-demonstrates Gloucester’s compassion towards the |-Loyalty |

| |[put Kent in the stocks]. |-high modality |king. | |

|2:4:292-294 |Gloucester: “Alack, the night comes on, and the high |-symbolism |-begins the storm |-Chaos |

| |winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There’s |-sorrowful tone “alack” “sorely” “scarce” |- demonstrates Gloucester’s compassion towards the |-Order/Disorder |

| |scarce a bush.” | |king. | |

|3:4:136-137 |Gloucester: “Yet I have ventured to come seek you out |-alliteration |- demonstrates Gloucester’s compassion towards the |-Loyalty |

| |And bring you where both fire and food is ready.” |-placating tone |king | |

|3:4:147-154 |Gloucester: “Ah, that good Kent, He said it would be |-irony |-demonstrates Gloucester learning from being ignorant|-Blindness |

| |thus, poor banished man! Thou sayst the king grows |-repetition (“friend”) |about his family. |-Loyalty |

| |mad; I’ll tell thee, friend, I am almost mad myself. |-symbolism |-the storm continues to reflect Lear’s madness |-Chaos |

| |I had a son, Now outlawed from my blood; he sought my | | | |

| |life But lately, very late. I loved him, friend; No | | | |

| |father his son dearer. True to tell thee, The grief | | | |

| |hath crazed my wits. What a night’s this!” | | | |

|3:7:90-91 |Gloucester: “O, my follies! Then Edgar was abused. |-religious inference |-shows Gloucester’s sudden change of heart towards |-Loyalty |

| |Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him.” |-exclamation |his sons. |-Blindness |

| | | | |-Chaos |

|4:1:18-24 |Gloucester: “I have no way, and therefore want no |-metaphor |-reflects on Gloucester’s learning experience, shows |-Loyalty |

| |eyes: I stumbled when I saw. Full oft ‘tis seen, Our|-irony |his plea for self forgiveness. |-Blindness |

| |means secure us, and our mere defects prove our | | |-Madness |

| |commodities. Oh, dear son Edgar, The food of thy | | | |

| |abused father’s wrath: Might I but live to see thee | | | |

| |in my touch, I’d say I had eyes again.” | | | |

|4:1:68-73 |Gloucester: “There is a cliff whose high and bending |-depressed tone |-exaggerates Gloucester’s negative mood, and need for|-Madness |

| |head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Bring me |-contrast (“misery” “rich”) |penance. |-Blindness |

| |but to the very brim of it, And I’ll repair the misery|-imagery | | |

| |thou dost bear With something rich about me. From | | | |

| |that place I shall no leading need.” | | | |

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