Treatment of women Flashcards
(10 cards)
“Create her child of spleen,
that it may live to be a thwart, disnatured torment to her” - Lear
“O how this mother swells
up toward my heart! Histerica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow; thy element’s below” - Lear
Arriving at Gloucester’s castle to see Regan after leaving Goneril, realising how he has been mistreated by his daughters
“See thyself, devil!
Proper deformity shows not in the fiend so horrid as in woman” - Albany
“howe’er thou art a fiend,
a woman’s shape doth shield thee” - Albany
“down from the waist
they are centaurs” - Lear
“the dark and vicious place
where thee he got cost him his eyes” - Edgar
“Nothing”
Cordelia
“milky
gentleness” - Goneril
“give my thy
sword. A peasant stand up thus?” - Regan
“I must change arms
at home and give the distaff into my husband’s hands”- Goneril
Preparing for battle
