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1. BETRAYAL

2. “Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.”
“Kill thy physician”
"Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery
bows?"
"A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly,
three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd,
action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-
trunk-inheriting slave."
Tiresias:
“I am free, for I have in me the strength of truth”
- Goldberg "The play does not offer us a guaranteed moral vantage point"
KENT

3. “Pluck out his eyes”
"Milk-liver'd man, that bear'st a cheek for blows."
“By th' law of war thou wast not bound to answer an unknown opposite. Thou
art not vanquish'd”
"Such unconstant starts are we like to have from him as this of Kent's
banishment."
- Display of corrupt power and authority.
Sophocles: “Never honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the
next.”
- Johnson "A play in which the wicked prosper and the virtuous miscarry"
GONERIL +REGAN

4. “Robes and furred gowns hide all.”
"We have divided in three our kingdom; and 'tis our fast intent to shake all
cares and business from our age."
"Better thou / Hadst not been born than not t' have pleas'd me better.“
“So out went the candle and we were left darkling”
Oedipus:
“The fact is that I am being called disloyal To the State”
- Dedalus “Overwhelmed by the role of „King‟.”
LEAR

5. “I cannot heave my heart into my mouth.”
"What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent."
"O dear father, / It is thy business that I go about."
"No blown ambition doth our arms incite, But love, dear love, and our
ag'd father's right."
- Betrays the conventional idea of „The King‟s daugther‟ (with good
intentions)
- Dedalus “Refuses to act as „the King‟s daughter and acts as a self.”
CORDELIA

6. “Edmund the base shall top the legitimate.”
"Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law my services are bound.”
"Why brand they us with base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?”
"I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my
virtue."
- Uses own family as a means to his end
Creon:
“Look at you, sullen in yielding, brutal in your rage—
you will go too far.”
- Satre in 'Lucifer and the Lord„ "Naturally, bastards betray. What else would they
do?"
EDMUND