GONERIL & REGAN

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• Cold and unfeeling
• Deceitful
• Merciless
• Selfish
• Conspiring

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• Disingenuous
• Stone-hearted
• Cruel/callous
• Vicious
• United (to begin with)

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• Unscrupulous/ruthless
• Sinister
• Power hungry
• Jealous
• Divided (enemies in the end)

CUNNING

• "I love you more than words can wield the matter" -G
• "I am made of that self same metal that my sister is" - R
• The feed Lear's ego because they know that they will
• benefit more from their lies.

RESENTFUL (G)

• "If he distaste it, let him to my sister"
• She dies not care if her father is
• uncomfortable. She knows that her sister
• would treat him the same as she.

CRUEL (G)

• "A little to disquantity your train" -G
• This is a heart-less blow to Lear's already
• broken spirit. Goneril is trying to
• provoke her father

CRUEL (R)

• "Til noon! Till night, my lord; and all night too" -R
• Regan wants to keep Kent in the stocks all night.
• She knows that this will provoke and enrage
• Lear.

COLD

• "Good sir, no more" -R
• Regan is unfeeling and ignores her father's
• plea for mercy. She shows no kindness or
• compassion.

UNITED

• "Therefore I pray, that to our sister you
• do make return, say you have wrong'd her" -R
• Regan is loyal to Goneril.
• At this point, they are both united against Lear.

VICIOUS

• "One side will mock another; the other too"-R
• Regan is callous and tells Cornwall to gouge
• out Gloucester's second eye.

DEVILISH

• Albany accuses Goneril of being devilish.
• "See thyself, devil."
• She has abandoned her marraige and neglected
• her father. A Shakespearian audience would have
• thought that she aphad a demon in her.

HEARTLESS

• "It was gat ignorance, Gloucester's eyes being out
• To let him live; where he arrives he moves all hearts
• against us" -R
• Regan regrets letting Gloucester live because
• his plight evokes sympathy .

POSSESSIVE (G)

• "I had rather lose the battle than that sister
• Should loosen him and me"
• Goneril would rather lose the crown than Edmund.
• Goneril and Regan have turned on each other.

JEALOUS

• "I am doubtful that you have been conjunct
• And bosom'd with her,as far as we call hers"-R
• Regan is suspicious of Goneril. She sees
• Goneril as a rival. They are no longer united.