Act 3

Question 1

Lear shouting at the storm

Answer 1

‘Blow winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow’

Question 2

Lear explaining what he is in the storm

Answer 2

‘A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man’

Question 3

Lear shouting at the storm again

Answer 3

‘I am a man/ more sinned against than sinning’

Question 4

Lear noticing the Fool is feeling the effects of the weather

Answer 4

‘How dost my boy? Art cold? I am cold myself’

Question 5

Edmund talking to his father

Answer 5

‘Most savage and unnatural’

Question 6

Edmund trying to usurp his father

Answer 6

‘The younger rises when the old doth fall’

Question 7

Lear showing regret for neglecting the poor

Answer 7

‘I have taken too little care of this!’

Question 8

Lear talking to the homeless

Answer 8

‘Take psychic pomp’

Question 9

Lear talking about Goneril and Regan

Answer 9

‘Those pelican daughters’

Question 10

The Fool’s final line

Answer 10

‘I’ll go to bed at noon’

Question 11

Edgar’s soliloquy about Lear’s suffering

Answer 11

‘How light and portable my pain seems now’

Question 12

Cornwall as he blinds Gloucester

Answer 12

‘Our vile jelly, where is thy lustre now?’

Question 13

Gloucester showing his loyalty to Lear

Answer 13

‘I am tied to the stake and I must stand the course’

Question 14

Gloucester discovering the truth about Edmund

Answer 14

The Edgar was abused/forgive me that and prosper him’