Out treacherous villain!
Thou
call’st on him that hates thee: It was he
That made the overture of thy treason
to us:
Who
is too good to pity thee.
-Regan
King Lear Act III,
Scene vii, Line 90
This is the scene where they gouge out poor Gloster’s eyes.
And this is the part of the scene where, with his eyes now useless, Gloster
‘sees’ for the first time that his son Edmund is the traitor and his son Edgar
is the betrayed. It's part of that 'seeing' theme that Will uses in this play.
The line that’s spoken before today’s Totally Random line is
where Gloster is calling for help from Edmund, who’s not there. Regan’s answer
is today’s line. Gloster then answers that with his realization that Edgar is
the good son, and Regan responds with one of my all-time favorite lines:
Go
thrust him out at gates, and let him smell
His
way to Dover.
Let him smell his way to Dover!
And that, my friends, just about sums up Regan.
This is a pic from my hotel room looking out on the Hoth. This is Plymouth, on the southwest coast of England. It's the closest I could come to a pic of Dover, which is on the southeast coast of England. No, I didn't smell my way there; I took a plane and a train.
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