Key Quotes

Question 1

Gloucester - “I am almost mad myself…

Answer 1

The grief hath crazed me”

Question 2

Lear - “Howl,howl,howl…

Answer 2

You are men of stones”

Question 3

Edgar - “take the basest and

Answer 3

Poorest shape”

Question 4

Lear - “when we are born

Answer 4

We cry that we are come to this great stage of fools”

Question 5

Edgar - “reason in

Answer 5

madness”

Question 6

Lear on Poor tom

Answer 6

“Philosopher”

Question 7

Lear - “reason not the need…

Answer 7

The art of our necessities is strange”

Question 8

Lear - “blow winds that

Answer 8

Crack your cheeks”

Question 9

Lear - “poor naked wretches

Answer 9

O, I have ta’en too little care of this”

Question 10

Lear - “Unaccomadated man is no more but

Answer 10

Such a poor, bare, forked man as thou art”

Question 11

Edmund - “We blame all that we are evil in

Answer 11

By a divine thrusting upon…fools by heavenly compulsion”

Question 12

Lear - “O let me not be mad

Answer 12

Sweet heaven”

Question 13

Cornwall - “power shall

Answer 13

do a courtesy to our wrath”

Question 14

Edmund - “Now gods

Answer 14

Stand up for bastards”

Question 15

Edmund - “the plague of

Answer 15

custom”

Question 16

Lear - “I am a man more

Answer 16

sinned against than sinning”

Question 17

Lear - “How sharper than a serpent’s

Answer 17

tooth it is to have a thankless child”

Question 18

Edgar - “the gods are

Answer 18

just”

Question 19

Gloucester - “winged

Answer 19

vengeance”

Question 20

Gloucester - “as flies to wanton boys

Answer 20

the gods kill us for their sport”

Question 21

Lear - “they told me I was everything…

Answer 21

‘Tis a lie, I am not ague proof”

Question 22

Lear - “a man may see how

Answer 22

this world goes with no eyes”

Question 23

Cordelia’s answer - Lear’s response

Answer 23

“Nothing”

“Nothing will come of Nothing”

Question 24

Lear - “Never,never

Answer 24

Never,never,never”

Question 25

Kent - “reverb

Answer 25

no hollowness”

Question 26

Goneril - “The best and soundest

Answer 26

of his time but rash”

Question 27

Regan - “dearer than

Answer 27

eyesight, space and liberty”

Question 28

Cordelia - “my loves more

Answer 28

Ponderous than my tongue”

Question 29

Cordelia - “according to

Answer 29

my bond, no more, no less”

Question 30

Fool - “thou hast pared thy

Answer 30

wit o’ both sides and left Nothing in the middle”

Question 31

Cornwall - “childlike

Answer 31

Office”

Question 32

Edmund - “the wheel

Answer 32

has come full circle”

Question 33

Lear - “I hereby disclaim all

Answer 33

my paternal care, propinquity, and property of blood”

Question 34

Edgar - “his flawed heart

Answer 34

burst smilingly”

Question 35

Lear - “my poor fool…

Answer 35

Is hanged”

Question 36

Edgar - “the weight of this sad time

Answer 36

We must obey, speak what we feel, not what we ought to say”

Question 37

Regan - “prescribe us…

Answer 37

Not our duty”

Question 38

Cornwall - edmund has done a “childlike

Answer 38

Office”