All 4 Uses of
wrath
in
King Lear
- Come not between the dragon and his wrath.†
Scene 1.1 *wrath = extreme anger
- Things that love night Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies Gallow the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves; since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry Th' affliction nor the fear.†
Scene 3.2wrathful = full of extreme anger
- Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice, yet our power Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men May blame, but not control.†
Scene 3.7wrath = extreme anger
- —O dear son Edgar, The food of thy abused father's wrath!†
Scene 4.1
Definition:
extreme anger or angry punishment