I REALLY NEED HELP !!
Adapted from Shakespeare's Classic Play by Edith Nesbit
1 King...
English, 24.04.2020 17:06, juniorracer148
I REALLY NEED HELP !!
Adapted from Shakespeare's Classic Play by Edith Nesbit
1 King Lear was old and tired. He was weary of the business of his kingdom, and wished only to end his days quietly near his three daughters. Lear called his three daughters together, and told them that he proposed to divide his kingdom between them. “But first,” said he, “I should like to know how much you love me.”
2 Goneril, who was really a very wicked woman and did not love her father at all, said she loved him more than words could say; she loved him dearer than eyesight, space or liberty, more than life, grace, health, beauty, and honor.
3 “I love you as much as my sister and more,” professed Regan, “since I care for nothing but my father’s love.”
4 Lear was very much pleased with Regan’s professions, and turned to his youngest daughter, Cordelia. “Now, our joy, though last not least,” he said, “the best part of my kingdom have I kept for you. What can you say?”
5 “Nothing, my lord,” answered Cordelia. “I love your majesty according to my duty—no more, no less.”
6 And this she said, because she was disgusted with the way in which her sisters professed love, when really they had not even a right sense of duty to their old father.
7 “I am your daughter,” she went on, “and you have brought me up and loved me, and I return you those duties back as are right and fit, obey you, love you, and most honor you.”
8 Lear, who loved Cordelia best, had wished her to make more extravagant professions of love than her sisters. “Go,” he said, “be forever a stranger to my heart and me.”
9 The Earl of Kent, one of Lear’s favorite courtiers and captains, tried to say a word for Cordelia’s sake, but Lear would not listen. He divided the kingdom between Goneril and Regan, and told them that he should only keep a hundred knights at arms, and would live with his daughters by turns.
10 The king now went to stay with his daughter Goneril, who had got everything from her father that he had to give, and now began to grudge even the hundred knights that he had reserved for himself. She was harsh and not dutiful to him, and her servants either refused to obey his orders or pretended that they did not hear them.
11 Goneril told her father plainly that his knights only served to fill her court with riot and feasting; and so she begged him to keep only a few old men about him such as himself.
12 “Goneril, I will not trouble you further—yet I have left another daughter,” said Lear.
13 And his horses being saddled, he set out with his followers for the castle of Regan. But she, who had formerly outdone her sister in professions of attachment to the king, now seemed to outdo her in undutiful conduct, saying that fifty knights were too many to wait on him, and Goneril (who had hurried thither to prevent Regan showing any kindness to the old king) said five were too many, since her servants could wait on him.
14 Then when Lear saw that what they really wanted was to drive him away, he left them. It was a wild and stormy night, and he wandered about the heath half mad with misery, and with no companion but the poor fool. At daybreak the Earl of Kent hurried to tell Cordelia what had happened.
15 Cordelia found poor King Lear, wandering about the fields, wearing a crown of nettles and weeds. She brought him back and fed and clothed him, and Cordelia came to him and kissed him.
16 “You must bear with me,” said Lear; “forget and forgive. I am old and foolish.”
17 And now he knew at last which of his children it was that had loved him best, and who was worthy of his love.
Which line shows when King Lear has learned his mistake?
Question 3 options:
A. Then when Lear saw that what they really wanted was to drive him away, he left them.
B. Lear was very much pleased with Regan’s professions, and turned to his youngest daughter, Cordelia.
C. Lear, who loved Cordelia best, had wished her to make more extravagant professions of love than her sisters. “Go,” he said, “be forever a stranger to my heart and me."
D. Cordelia found poor King Lear, wandering about the fields, wearing a crown of nettles and weeds.
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