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“Hence, and avoid my sight!” Lear to Cordelia

“ Sir , I do love more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty…” -- Goneril. “Hence, and avoid my sight!” Lear to Cordelia. “Because I would not see they cruel nails Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor thy fierce sister

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“Hence, and avoid my sight!” Lear to Cordelia

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  1. “ Sir , I do love more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty…” -- Goneril

  2. “Hence, and avoid my sight!” Lear to Cordelia

  3. “Because I would not see they cruel nails Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor thy fierce sister In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs…”

  4. “But I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children”– Gloucester “See” ’t shalt thou never.—Fellows, hold the chair.— Upon these eyes of thine I’ll set my foot. – Cornwall

  5. “The oldest hath borne most. We that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.” – Edgar

  6. How does Gloucester’s physical blindness mirror both his and Lear’s metaphorical blindness throughout the play?

  7. “You see how full of change his age is. The observation made of it hath not been little. --Goneril ( about Lear)

  8. Gloucester: “What paper were you reading?” • Edmund: “Nothing my lord” • Gloucester: “No? What needed them that terrible dispatch of it into your pocket? The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself. Let’s see. Come, if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles”

  9. Edgar: “ Why then your other senses grow imperfect by your eyes’ anguish. • Gloucester: “So it may be indeed. Methinks thy voice is altered and thou speak’st in better phrase and matter than thou didst. • Edgar: “Y’are much decieved: in nothing am I changed but in my garments”

  10. “A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ear: see hoe yond justice rails upon yond simple thief.” -- Lear

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