Act 2 Scene 2

Question 1

“Most beautiful woman in the room” - roe

Answer 1

• her metaphor involves beauty of women, an appreciation of the misogyny she is subject too
• she shown to be an intelligent woman who is suppressed by the treatment of her gender

Question 2

Never see roes firing scene

Answer 2

• talked about by men
• never get to see it
• if we think back to the prologue, the lawyer did not Deem her worth the attention

Question 3

“ doesn’t have to be brought to me of course” - lay

Answer 3

• lay only has to act when its brought to his attention
• he would have been fine being ignorant
• he doesn’t want to know what’s going on

Question 4

“ any deceit is deceit” - lay

Answer 4

• highly ironic as the whole company is based on deceit

Question 5

he watches lay, fascinated
* tries to bow his head to make it look like he hadn’t* SD

Answer 5

• undermining of religion
• could be argued lays religion affiliation save him from his demise

Question 6

“ can’t even smoke indoors” -lay

Answer 6

• just like f had ‘ powrer’ in magic but he didn’t really have any power
• similarly lay has power but can’t so so thin as simple as smoke a cigar