King Lear Motifs by Maria Psomas https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw made by Tori Holena, Brittany Coleman, Maria Psomas en-us 2019-12-19 18:54:59 UTC 2025-11-19 03:02:44 UTC hello@padlet.com Loyalty maripsom21 https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw/wish/426033749 "Tell me, my daughters,-- / Since now we will divest us both of rule, / Interest of territory,, cares of state, -- / Which of you shall we say doth love us most?" (I.i. 48-51).]]> 2019-12-19 18:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw/wish/426033749 Family Responsibility https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw/wish/426034262 "Regan, I think you are; I know what reason I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad, I would divorce me from my mothers tomb, sepulchring an adultress" (II.iv.132-135).]]> 2019-12-19 18:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw/wish/426034262 Loyalty maripsom21 https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw/wish/426035054 "O heavens, / If you do love old men, if your sweet sway / Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, / Make it your cause; send down, and take my part!" (II.iv. 203-206).

Reagan sides with Goneril rather than her father.

"I pray you, father, being week, seem so. / If, till the expiration of your month, / You will return and sojourn with my sister, / Dismissing half your train, come then to me" (II.iv. 217-220)]]> 2019-12-19 19:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw/wish/426035054 Age/Mortality https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw/wish/426037997 “This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish them...If our father would sleep till I wake him” (I. ii. 48-53)]]> 2019-12-19 19:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw/wish/426037997 Age/Mortality https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw/wish/426038371 “Nature in you stands on the very verge/Of her confine: you should be ruled and led/By some discretion, that discerns your state/Better than you yourself.” (II. iv. 153-156)]]> 2019-12-19 19:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw/wish/426038371 Family Responsibility https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw/wish/426041277 "Let it be so: I have a daughter, / Who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable: / When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails / She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find / That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think / I have cast off for ever: thou shalt, / I warrant thee (I.iv.304-310). ]]> 2019-12-19 19:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/maripsom21/62ex4emm2zuw/wish/426041277