Can anyone help me by telling me some quotes from "Hamlet", "Macbeth" and "King Lear" which suggest the idea of power, authority, legitimacy or illegitimacy?
2006-10-30 08:56:18 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
To be or not to be, that is the question.
2006-10-30 08:58:29 · answer #1 · answered by leazngurl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here are some qoutes from macbeth...
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." Macbeth Quote (Act IV, Scene I).
"There 's daggers in men's smiles". - ( Quote Act II, Sc. III).
Fair is foul, and foul is fair". - ( Quote Act I, Scene I).
from hamlet, here are some qoutes...
To be, or not to be: that is the question". Hamlet quote (Act III, Sc. I).
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry". Hamlet quote Act I, Sc. III).
"This above all: to thine own self be true" Hamlet quote (Act I, Sc. III).
"This is the very ecstasy of love". - ( Hamlet Quote Act II, Sc I).
from king lear are...
The worst is not, So long as we can say, 'This is the worst.' " . King Lear Quote (Act IV, Scene I).
I am a man more sinned against than sinning". - ( Quote Act III, Scene II).
Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest". - ( Quote Act I, Scene IV).
hope i helped
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2006-10-30 18:45:21 · answer #2 · answered by §èxÿtà mmý ® 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Lear:- Taking away power from his daughter, her rights to land and turning her (in a speech) from his favourite legitimate child to the ranks of an ilegitimate with no claim to inheritance. This is a more obscure quote and a very apt one so it should prove useful. Good Luck!
Act 1 Sc 1
"Let it be so; thy truth, then, be thy dower:
For, by the sacred radiance of the sun,
The mysteries of Hecate, and the night;
By all the operation of the orbs
From whom we do exist, and cease to be;
Here I disclaim all my paternal care,
Propinquity and property of blood,
And as a stranger to my heart and me
Hold thee, from this, for ever. The barbarous Scythian,
Or he that makes his generation messes
To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom
Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and relieved,
As thou my sometime daughter".
2006-11-01 15:56:49 · answer #3 · answered by inquisitivemindquestioner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite from MacBeth:
It is a tale told by an idiot
Full of sound and fury signifying nothing
(he was referring to life)
2006-10-30 21:56:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Alas, poor Yoric. I knew him well".
2006-10-30 18:17:40 · answer #5 · answered by Raymond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be or not to be, that is the question
2006-10-30 17:04:56 · answer #6 · answered by keepin it reel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋