Figurative Language –Landon Julson

 

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 neighbored, pitied, and relieved

As thou my sometime daughter.

 

1.        King Lear is speaking to Cordelia.  He is surprised by her not sucking up to him like the others when she tells him the honest truth so he banishes her.

 

2.       Then that’s the way it’ll be. The truth will be all the inheritance you get. I swear by the sacred sun, by the mysterious moon, and by all the planets that rule our lives, that I disown you now as my daughter. As of now, there are no family ties between us, and I consider you a stranger to me. Foreign savages who eat their own children for dinner will be as close to my heart as you, ex-daughter of mine.

 

Basically what he is saying is that he is very surprised by the fact that she did something different so he is making her leave the kingdom.  Even though she is his daughter and she tells him everything truthfully she is still forced to leave.

 

3.       all my paternal care,

 Propinquity, and property of blood,          :He uses alliteration and repetition of sounds to draw our attention in.

 

4.       Using the “p” sound emphasizes the anger and seriousness in his tone of voice, also it shows that he is spitting to show his emotions towards it.

5.       I think that it shows how serious he is about the situation at hand and that when he knows one daughter is doing something differently and not like the usual he gets mad.  Maybe then that means he has set standards for what should be said or done with the situation and or what he is expecting.