 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! Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir.  Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, with notes, adapted for schools and for ... - Page 140by William Shakespeare - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Jeanine Grenberg - History - 2005 - 288 pages
...die, and the injustice of their world will thereby be revealed. As Lear laments over Cordelia's death, "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, / And thou no breath at all?" (v.3. 306-307). Shakespeare is clearly pessimistic about whether there is genuine room in this world... | |
 | 张秀国 - English language - 2005 - 288 pages
...talking. (Hemingway) (@to indicate obstruction) (8)Lear: And my poor fool is hang'd. No, no, no rife I 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\ (Shakespeare) (@ to indicate despair) 8 ·... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - Drama - 2005 - 298 pages
...grief emerges by degrees until it breaks his heart and overwhelms us all: And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And them no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! (5.3.306—9) The raw... | |
 | Francesco D'Agostino - Bioethics - 2005 - 156 pages
...morte, le roi Lear ne pleure pas la mort d'un être vivant mais cette mort, la mort de sa fille : « Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at ail ? » C'est uniquement parce qu'il peut recevoir (de la psyché) une identité et un sens que le... | |
 | Richard Lederer - Humor - 2007 - 268 pages
...more skillfully than William Shakespeare, whose dying King Lear laments: 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? . . . Do you see this? Look on her! Look! Her lips! Look there, look there! Shakespeare's contemporaries... | |
 | Martin Lings - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 228 pages
...have felt. (V, 3, 267-68) But then he saw for certain, beyond any possible doubt, that she was dead: 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. (V, 3, 306-9) Yet now, with his last breath,... | |
 | Katharine Goodland - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 276 pages
...pattern. As he finally acknowledges Cordelia' s death, his emotions seem to exhaust and suffocate him: "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 / Pray you undo this button" (5.3.369-73).... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - English drama - 2006 - 324 pages
...animal. Lear speaks the last words on this topic to the dead Cordelia, seconds before his own death: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life And thou no breath at all? (5.3.305-6) This is not closure, not a clean exit, much less consolation. The seemingly random list... | |
 | Sukanta Chaudhuri - Didactic drama, English - 1981 - 284 pages
...disintegration after it. His last speech still reflects the starkest question in human experience: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? (V. iii. 306-7) By the time Lear dies, he has stretched every moral fibre to the uttermost. His very... | |
 | Alma Bond - Family & Relationships - 2006 - 186 pages
...understand choosing to sleep under the sod. As King Lear said to his dead daughter, I ask you, Kendall, "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, /And thou no breath at all 112 ?" Then Ed Griffin, an ex-priest and dear writer friend told me of someone who found an answer... | |
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