Act 2 Scene 2

Question 1

Quote signifying Oswald’s fake cries for help

Answer 1

Help Ho murder,murder

Question 2

Significance of Oswald’s reaction to challenge of fight from Kent in act 2 scene 2

Answer 2

Shows Kent’s immense loyalty to Lear and the difference between the old and new world.Kent resorts instantly to violence as a part of the old world,Oswald resorts to lies and deception

Question 3

Quotes from act 2 scene 2 signifying new world ideology of lies contrasted to old world

Answer 3

Cornwall:“These kind of knaves I know,which in this plainness harbour more craft and more corrupter ends”
Kent:“I have seen better faces in my time than stands on any shoulder that I see”
Oswald:“Whose life I have spared at suit of his grey beard”

Question 4

Significance of Kent being stocked

Answer 4

1.Form of punishment and humiliation.This is given to people of a lower class so this moment represents a clear inversion of order as a nobleman is treated as a lowly criminal
2.Kent is punished for his own honestly and loyalty,new world loyalty seen as crime
3.Kent’s suffering foreshadows Lear’s later casting out into the storm as Kent is physically restrained Lear will be restrained and trapped by madness and despair
4.Increasing tyranny of Regan and Cornwall in open defiance of Lear

Question 5

Quote showing Regan interjecting and increasing punishment,characterising her as worst villain?

Answer 5

Till noon? Till night,my lord

Question 6

Quote showing ‘wheel of fortune’

Answer 6

Fortune,good night:smile once more:turn thy wheel