Lear quotes Act 2 Flashcards
(12 cards)
Gloucester tells Edmund that he will find a way to make him heir to his lands. His use of the word ‘natural’ describes Edmund has two meanings: on the one hand ‘natural means illegitimate but also means Edmund shows the loyalty a dad should naturally expect from his son. Act 2 Scene 1
‘Loyal and natural boy, I’ll work the means To make thee capable.’ Act 2 Scene 1
Gloucester tells Regan that he is deeply distressed by news of Edgar’s treachery. Act 2 Scene 1
‘O madam, my old heart is cracked, it’s cracked!’ Act 2 Scene 1
Cornwall says he has heard that Edmund has acted in a loving and loyal way towards his dad as one would expect. Act 2 Scene 1
‘Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father A child-like office.’ Act 2 Scene 1
Gloucester begs Cornwall not to put Kent in the stocks, saying that Lear will be displeased to see his messenger treated this way, as it shows a lack of respect for his master, Lear. Act 2 Scene 2
‘The King must take it ill, That he, so slightly valued in his messenger, Should have him thus restrained.’ Act 2 Scene 2
Gloucester, sorry that Kent is in the stocks, says it is what the Duke of Cornwall wants, and everyone knows that he won’t be slowed down or stopped once he has made up his mind. Act 2 Scene 2
'’Tis the duke’s pleasure, Whose disposition, all the world well knows, Will not be rubbed nor stopped.’ Act 2 Scene 2
Edgar, who has disguised himself as Tom o’Bedlam, says that he i no longer the man he once was. Act 2 Scene 3
‘Edgar I nothing am.’ Act 2 Scene 3
Regan, hoping to persuade Lear to return to Goneril, tells him that he is old and nearly at the end of his natural life, In other words, she says he is not really capable of deciding things for himself. Act 2 Scene 4
‘O sir, you are old. Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine.’ Act 2 Scene 4
Lear calls on lighting to strike Goneril in the eyes that have looked on him with cruelty and scorn’ Act 2 Scene 4
‘You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames into her scornful eyes!’ Act 2 Scene 4
Lear tells Goneril and Regan that he will take terrible revenge on them for their treatment of him. In his distress, he cannot think what exactly he will do, but he promises his revenge will be terrible. Act 2 Scene 4
‘No you unnatural hags,I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall-I will do such things-What they are yet I know not, but they shall be The terrors of the earth!’ Act 2 Scene 4
Lear wonders why his heart does not burst out of his chest as he is so agitated. Act 2 Scene 4
‘O sides, you are too tough! Will you yet hold?’ Act 2 Scene 4
Regan tells Lear that as he is weak, he should appear in a manner appropriate to a weak person. Act 2 Scene 4
‘I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.’ Act 2 Scene 4
Lear says that he has good reason to weep but that he would prefer his heart to break into a thousand fragments before he will allow himself to do so. Act 2 Scene 4
‘I have full cause of weeping, But this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or ere I’ll weep.’ Act 2 Scene 4
