Blindness and insight Flashcards
(10 cards)
“See
better Lear” - Kent
“we have divided
in three our kingdom” - Lear
“Abhorred villain,
unnatural, detested, brutish villain” - Gloucester
“O most small
fault, how ugly didst thou in Cordelia show” - Lear
“I am a man
more sinned against than sinning” - Lear
“I would not see
thy cruel nails pluck out his poor old eyes, nor thy fierce sister in his anointed flesh rash boarish fangs” - Gloucester
“I have no way
and therefore want no eyes. I stumbled when I saw”
“they told me I was everything.
‘Tis a lie. I’m not ague-proof” - Lear
When meeting Gloucester and Edgar and is mad
“Who are you? Mine eyes
are not the best. I’ll tell you straight” - Lear
Reunion with Kent
“They flattered my like
a dog and told me I had the white hairs in my beard ere the black ones were there” - Lear