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Quote From King Lear

“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
-Shakespeare, King Lear

King Lear says this line to Gloucester, explaining his theory that babies cry right after birth because they've realized that they have been brought to this terrible world. King Lear was a downer. He's so negative about everything! Well, you can't really blame him, right? What kind of old man with two blood-splattered and empty eye sockets would be happy?

Shakespeare Vocab

Vocab word: bloodstained
Meaning: (adj.) to be stained with blood [duh!]
Connections with Shakespeare: Will invented this word. He used the word "bloodstained" in the play Henry IV in Part One, Act One, Scene Three.

Shakespeare Vocabulary

Vocab word: abhorred
Meaning: disgusted, horrified (adj.)
Connections with Shakespeare: The word "abhorred" is used frequently in Shakespeare's plays when describing a gory scene of murder.

Shakespearean Quote

“When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defac’d The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age; 
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz’d, 
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage”
—Shakespeare, “Sonnet 64”
 (Also featured in The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare)   

Quote and Novel Connection

Shakespeare quote:
"I'll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge."

Shakespearean play it's from:
King Henry Vl

Popular Young Adult novel it's featured in:
City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare. 

Quote and Popular Novel Connection

Shakespeare quote:
"If you prick us, do we not bleed? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"

Shakespearean play the quote is from:
The Merchant of Venice

Popular Young Adult Novel the quote is featured in:
The 5th Wave by author Rick Yancey