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1. Lear: 'Thou, all-shaking thunder, / Strike flat the thick rotundity o'th' world! / Crack ???? ????.' III ii.

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1. Lear: 'Thou, all-shaking thunder, / Strike flat the thick rotundity o'th' world! / Crack ???? ????.' III ii.

1. Lear: 'Thou, all-shaking thunder, / Strike flat the thick rotundity o'th' world! / Crack nature's moulds.' III ii.
Lear claims he wants the world destroyed, all nature flattened.

2. Lear: 'Here I stand, your slave, / A poor, ????, weak and ???? old man.' III ii

2. Lear: 'Here I stand, your slave, / A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man.' III ii
An element of self-pity, but also some realisation of his weaknesses, of how he has lost status.

3. Lear: 'Tremble, thou wretch, / That hast within thee ???? crimes / Unwhipped of ????.' III ii

3. Lear: 'Tremble, thou wretch, / That hast within thee undivulgèd crimes / Unwhipped of justice.' III ii
Justice as a central theme. Lear says that 'the great gods' will 'find out their enemies now.'

4. Lear: 'I am a man / More ???? against than ????.' III ii.

4. Lear: 'I am a man / More sinned against than sinning.' III ii.
A central Q for audience: what level of responsibility does he have? He is beginning to see his own 'sin'.

5. Lear: 'My ???? begin to turn. / Come on, my ????: how dost, my ???? Art cold? / I am cold myself.' III ii

5. Lear: 'My wits begin to turn. / Come on, my boy: how dost, my boy? Art cold? / I am cold myself.' III ii
Some sense of his mental disturbance. His care for his 'boy', the Fool.

6. Lear: 'The art of our ???? is strange, / And can make ???? things precious.' III ii

6. Lear: 'The art of our necessities is strange, / And can make vile things precious.' III ii
Refer back to 'O reason not the need!' He is 'seeing' new things, including how 'precious' things like straw can be.

7. Lear: 'Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my ???? / That's ???? yet for thee.' III ii

7. Lear: 'Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart / That's sorry yet for thee.' III ii
His developing empathy for 'weaker' people.

8. Fool: 'He that has and a tiny little ???, / With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, / Must make ???? with his fortunes fit, / Though the rain it raineth every day.' III ii

8. Fool: 'He that has and a tiny little wit, / With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, / Must make content with his fortunes fit, / Though the rain it raineth every day.' III ii
Lear replies: 'True, boy': a recognition of the 'storm', the necessity to accept reality.

9. Lear: 'the ???? in my mind / Doth from my senses take all feeling else / Save what beats there. Filial ????!' III iv.

9. Lear: 'the tempest in my mind / Doth from my senses take all feeling else / Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!' III iv.
The growing mental/emotional 'storm'.

10. Lear: 'O I have ta'en / Too ???? ???? of this!' III iv

10. Lear: 'O I have ta'en / Too little care of this!' III iv
His new awareness of 'houseless poverty', the 'houseless heads and unfed sides'.

11. Lear: 'Take physic, pomp, / Expose thyself to what wretches feel, / That thou may'st shake the ???? to them / And show the heavens more ????.' III iv

11. Lear: 'Take physic, pomp, / Expose thyself to what wretches feel, / That thou may'st shake the superflux to them / And show the heavens more just.' III iv
Straight after 10. A connection with 'wretches', and a realisation about 'pomp'. 'Superflux' - 'our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous'

12. Lear: "Thou are the ???? ?????: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked ???? as thou art.' III iv.

12. Lear: "Thou are the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.' III iv.
(to Edgar) The play examines just what we truly are, when stripped of everything. Lear has 'something' compared to the lunatic.

13. Lear: "Is there any cause in nature that make these ???? ????'

13. Lear: "Is there any cause in nature that make these hard hearts?'
About 'what breeds about (Regan's) heart'. A central question: what makes us who we are (where does badness come from?)

14. Cornwall: 'Though well we may not pass upon his life / Without the form of ????...' III vii

14. Cornwall: 'Though well we may not pass upon his life / Without the form of justice...' III vii
The most dramatic 'trial' scene: a mere 'form' of justice (charge, verdict, punishment).

15. Servant: 'Better ???? have I never done you / Than now to bid you hold.' III vii.

15. Servant: 'Better service have I never done you / Than now to bid you hold.' III vii.
After the blinding, heroic loyalty to decency and morality by the servant who sacrifices himself: counterpoint to the darkness.