 And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!  Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say - Pàgina 153per Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 176 pàginesPrevisualització limitada - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Tim Fountain - 2007 - 145 pàgines
...see that Cordelia loves him - causes him to destroy the thing he most loves and needs in the world. 'Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no GETTING STARTED breath at all?' Lear incredulously asks over his daughter's dead body. The answer is... | |
 | Rita Felski - 2008 - 386 pàgines
...for their sport" — but that the justified questioning of human beings in innocent agony (Job) — "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life? And thou no breath at all?" — is doomed to remain unanswered. Blasphemy, a fundamentally religious mode, characterizes key motions... | |
 | Gerard Woodward - 2007 - 308 pàgines
...carrying her as a baby - "thy crying self - on to the boat and into exile. Think of Lear and Cordelia - "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all?" Think even of Titus Andronicus and Lavinia . . .' The students nodded thoughtfully. Afterwards Aldous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 pàgines
...it is well to remember the at least equally moving words he later speaks over Cordelia's dead body: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? (5.3.308-9) Here Lear heartbreakingly insists on the difference between a human being and an animal,... | |
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