Friday, March 11, 2011

YOUR QUOTATION: KING LEAR Quotation Test

Write in detail about the quotation you were assigned in class to discuss on  this blog. Include basic information: the speaker, the character(s) being addressed, the scene in which it occurs, the circumstances surrounding it utterance, its meaning within the scene, its literary significance within in the play, and whatever else you notice about it.
Over this weekend, both read and  highlight the handout I gave to you on Ancient Greek Literature. Bring it highlighted to class on Monday.
Since you requested it, here is the test you took today in class:
King Lear Test      March 11, 2011      Mr. Balgley
Read each quotation from King Lear, then identify the character who speaks those words in the play.

CHARACTERS:  A. King Lear     B. King of France               C. Cordelia    D. Regan     E. Gonoril     F. Kent
G. Gloucester    H. Edgar    I. Edmund    J. Fool           K. Cornwall     L. Albany     O. Oswald             

___1.  O Gonoril,/ You are not worth the dust which the rude wind/ Blows in your face
___2.  Fellows, hold the chair. /Upon those eyes of thine I’ll set my foot.
___3.  Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion/ Of my fierce endeavor.
___4. ‘Tis strange that from their cold’st neglect/ My love should kindle to inflamed respect.
___5.  O ruined piece of nature! This great world/ Should so wear out to naught.
___6.  Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave/ My heart into my mouth.
___7.  Thou hadst little wit in thy in thy bald crown when thou gavest thy golden one away.
___8.  Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
___9.  The art of our necessities is strange,/ That can make vile things precious.
___10. Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds/ Do sorely rustle. For miles about/ There’s not a bush.
___11. My duty cannot suffer/To obey all your daughters' hard commands./Though their injunction be to bar my doors.   Kenia
___12. I grow, I prosper. Now, gods, stand up for bastards.  Brittany
___13. In, boy; go first.-You houseless poverty-nay, get thee in.  Yunrui
___14. Why do I triffle thus with his despair/ Is done to cure it.  Yunrui
___15. And worse I may be yet. The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the worst." 
___16. See better, Lear, and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye.  Maurice
___17. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; /They kill us for their sport.  Brandon
­­___18. I grow; I prosper./Now, gods, stand up for bastards!  Brandon
___19. Gloucester's eyes being out, to let him live. Where he arrives he movies all hearts against us.  Medina
___20. A man may see how the world goes with no eyes; look with thy ears.  Medina
___21. O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars /Are in the poorest thing superfluous./ Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man’s life’s as cheap as beast’s. Raymond
___22. Happily, when I shall wed, that lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry half my love with, half  my care and duty.  Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, to love my father all.  Tiffany
___23. See thyself, devil! /Proper deformity seems not in the fiend/ So horrid as in woman.
___24.We two alone will sing like birds i’th’cage./ When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down /And ask of thee forgiveness.
___25. When we our betters see bearing our woes,/ We scarely think our miseries our woes
___26. Villain take my purse./ If thou wilt thrive, bury my body, /And give the letters which thou find’st about me to Edmund  Earl of Gloucester.
___27. When we are born, we cry that we are come/ To this great stage of fools.
___28. Methinks thy voice is alter’d, and thou speakest/ In better phrase and matter that thou didst.
___29. My most dear Gloucester./ To thee a woman’s services are due;/ My foot usurps my body.
___30. ‘Tis the infirmity of his age; he hath ever but slenderly known himself.
Optional Extra Credit Identifications:
__31. ‘Tis the times plague when madmen lead the blind.
__32. Ten masts a-length make not the altitude/ Which thou hast perpendicularly fell./ Thy life’s a miracle
__33. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;/ Filths savour but themselves.
__34. This world I do renounce, and in your sights/ Shake patiently my great affliction off !
__35. Shut up your doors./  He is attended with a desperate  train,/ and what they may incense him to . . .
__36. My tears begin to take his part so much/ They’ll mar my counterfeiting
__37. Why, this fellow hath banished two on’s daughters and done the third a blessing against his will
__37. My face I’ll grime with filth,/ Blanket my loins, elf all my hair with knots/ And with presented nakedness outface/ The wind and persecution of the sky
__39. Child Roland to the dark tower come,/ His word was still ‘Fie, fo, and fum;/ I smell the blood of a British man.
__40. Humanity must perforce prey on itself, / like monsters of the deep.

12 comments:

  1. #5
    O ruined piece of nature! This great world/ Should so wear to naught.
    -Glouscester

    To me this quote has much more meaning than what we may tend to think. While I read it over and over trying to decifer the meaning,one specific word stood out the most to me. NAUGHT which represents the word nothing. I find it extremely interesting for the word "nothing" was used many times throughout the play. For example Cordelia used it at the beginning when King Lear wanted her to praise him, and the fool also used it to describe himself. In my personal opinion the word "nothing" basically foreshadowed the whole play because at the end nothing or no one was left but only Edgar.

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  2. #11
    This quote is said by Gloucester to King Lear, what this quote means is that as much of a consequence it might be, he cannot obey King Lear's daughters,
    They are terrible rulers and have abandon Lear as a King and as a father. They are not thankful for all Lear has done for them which makes them selfish. Gloucester respects King Lear as a King and is very much on his side. It's literary significance is that now Gloucester appreciates King Lear more then he did before because he sees that his daughters are evil and that they respect no one. They are gluttons.

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  3. # 6
    Scene 1 act 1
    -Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave/ My heart into my mouth.

    This quote was said by Cordelia to King Lear. To me this quote means that she doesn't have to tell him how much she loves him but that she rather keep showing it. This was the part when King Lear was dividing the kingdom between his three daughters. Cordelia felt as if she didn't have to express her love towards her father for a part of the kingdom. She loves him for the bond that they have not for the kingdom that he had. Unlike her sisters she does love her father and is not going to go down to Regan and Goneril's level and say it just to get a part of the kingdom.

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  4. 18. I grow; I prosper./Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
    This quote was said by Edmund. This quote signifies that Edmund is standing up for himself. Now that Lear and Gloucester is in great deal of trouble, he feels as if he rules the world in so many ways. I believe that this quote means that he grew up into a successful man and now people should have respect for him even if he is a bastard.

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  5. 8. Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

    This was said by Lear to Edgar. This quote signifies that King Lear has noticed that a man can be just like an animal with the kind os civilization there is. He even tries to take his clothes off to give them to poor Tom.

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  6. 14. Why do I triffle thus with his despair/ Is done to cure it.
    - Edgar, Act IV, scene vi.
    This is an aside made by Edgar while travelling with the blind Gloucester, as Poor Tom. In this scene, Gloucester is contemplating suicide, and tries to get Poor Tom to leave him be. However, Edgar is trying to convince Gloucester otherwise. When Edgar speaks "Why do I triffle thus with his despair/ Is done to cure it," he means to say that he feels that he is being of no help to Gloucester, although his intentions are well meant.

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  7. I am EXTENDING THE DEADLINE for you to post your comments on the quotation you were assigned in class to write about on this blog to SUNDAY 3:00PM. Get with it! (The test quotes appear in this posting.:)

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  8. Quotation 21.
    O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars /Are in the poorest thing superfluous./ Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man’s life’s as cheap as beast’s.
    During act II scene iv, King Lear says this in response to his daughter, Regan who is questioning King Lear that what is the need of King Lear keeping his hundred knights for. King Lear responses that a hundred knights doesn’t really means anything to him, though the meaning or the representative authority behind a hundred knights is important, even for beggars there are still meaningful things to them. King Lear's response shows the great insight on what makes humans human and the importance of the individual's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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  9. Mr. I thought the deadline was Sunday 11:00 pm

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  10. 16. "See better, Lear, and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye." This is said by Kent to King Lear in Act I, i, lines 169-170. Here Kent is defending Cordelia when King Lear banishes her for not displaying her love and affection to him. Kent is telling Lear to be reasonable not to make such rash decisions. And essentially to trust Kent's judgement and not his own.

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  11. 10. "Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds/ Do sorely rustle. For miles about/ There’s not a bush."

    This quote spoken by Gloucester is said after Lear exits and this simply shows Gloucester's worry of the grim looking weather and how dangerous it would be for anyone to be outside.

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  12. The class did so well this time! :) Congradulations guys.

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