 | Ernest Van Den Haag - Philosophy - 386 pages
...more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as beast's. Turning directly to Regan, Lear averred: Thou art a lady. If only to go warm were gorgeous,...what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. No sociologist could stress more tellingly that physically unneeded "luxury" may be socially... | |
 | 2007 - 76 pages
...play. Lear looks with sympathy at the concept of human need, and shows some insight and growth. Lear Oh reason not the need.' Our basest beggars Are in the...nature more than nature needs Man's life is cheap as beast's.2 Thou art a lady; 265 If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 380 pages
...Lear's need for even a single knight, he cries out in one of the most oftquoted speeches of the play, O reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the...than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. (2.4.263-66) Human nature, stripped of all but the barest necessities, is reduced to the bestial. Man... | |
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O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's: thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,... 
