Critics Views A05 - Characters

Question 1

Hudson - GR

personfications

Answer 1

“Goneril and Regan are ‘personifications of ingratitude,”

Question 2

Mclaughlin - GR

treatment of men

Answer 2

“The way Goneril and Reagan treat the men in their life, shows they’re determined to master the men in their life’s and reduce them to inferior,

Question 3

Lamar - Lear

purpose

Answer 3

The purpose of King Lear is the “education and purification of Lear,”

Question 4

Clement - Lear

engaged in a constant

Answer 4

“Lear is engaged in a constant monologue and questioning of his identity,”

Question 5

Susan Bruce - Lear

lears actions

Answer 5

“Lears actons are a catalyst, not a cause,”

Question 5

G KNIGHT - Edmund

obeys

Answer 5

“edmund obeys natures law of selfishness,”

Question 6

Elton - Cordelia

christ like

Answer 6

“Cordelia is ‘defined as a Christ like figure, therefore her downfall is a direct representation of a God-less society,”

Question 7

Asimov - Fool

secret

Answer 7

“The great secret of the successful fool is that he is no fool at all,”

Question 8

Woods - Fool

mirror

Answer 8

“The fool is a fractured mirror of Lear himself,”

Question 9

Orwell - Fool

sanity

Answer 9

“He is like a trickle of sanity running through the play,”

Question 10

Hellman - Gloucester

sight

Answer 10

“The old men themselves come to insight through suffering,”