Shakespeare - King Lear (Theme of Evil)
Goneril
Regan
King Lear
Edmund
“Here I disclaim all my paternal care( …) and as a stranger to my heart and me hold thee, from this, for ever.”
“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”
“I did her wrong”
“Monster ingratitude!”
“O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven”
“A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man”
“They flattered me like a dog”
“I am a very foolish fond old man”
“…unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.”
“but this heart/ Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws”
“Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter”
“Pluck out his eyes.”
“Hang him instantly”
“One side will mock another; the other too.”
“…let him smell/ His way to Dover.”
“it was he (Edmund) that made the overture of thy treasons to us”
“Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit”
Theme of Madness
Edgar
“Reason in madness!”
Fool
“… thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown, when thou gavest thy golden one away.”
Kent
“O, let him pass! he hates him much That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.”