FOOL

Question 1

Lears shadow
act 1 s4

Answer 1

lost identity in power/authority, running away from it (gave it away) madness taking over, no longer filling primary role of fool.

Question 2

heres my coxomb
act 1 s4

Answer 2

critising/mocking ‘kent’ for going back to lear (knows its him? like audience)
knows lear has lost authority and is going mad

Question 3

learn more than thou trowest
set less than thou throwest

Answer 3

fool recognises Lears wrong doings (giving crown away, trusting) voicing audiences advice? rhyming couplet = trying to help through jokes

Question 4

men are grown foppish

Answer 4

‘don’t need fools got wise men’
lear= trusting daughters, getting rid of cordelia. kent for going back to lear. wise people have become the fools

Question 5

fool acts of audience of lower class

Answer 5

looked down on, aren’t heard, opinions aren’t valid. doesn’t cause damage to plot like cordelia (detached from greater insight) all-licensed and isn’t heard. acts like inner thoughts

Question 6

fools a chorus
ARISTOTLE

Answer 6

narrating basics of what’s happening on stage (lear being stupid getting rid of cordelia etc) (lear gambling everything he owned)

Question 7

fool acts as a contrast to lear

Answer 7

we see how much Lears judgment is missing = almost feel sympathy?

Question 8

fool embodiment to lears inner thoughts

Answer 8

(recognises cordelia banish wrong but won’t admit it) arguing with himself, keeps fool close affectionate loyal

Question 9

fool has a bigger understanding of world

Answer 9

foreshadows rest of play for audience as so far right. knows family a lot, (grew up?) echos Kents words like he’s always their, certain of disguise, know more or does he know lear and his surrounding well.

Question 10

‘she’s likes this as crabs like an apple’

Answer 10

metaphor, assuring lear he knows what’s he’s talking about, lear trusting fool more as relies to tell him when he’s wrong

Question 11

‘crab does to a crab’

Answer 11

1 crab like another (pinching), acts as 1 person taste the same

Question 12

fool assuring lear on his thoughts

Answer 12

no longer arguing with himself (thoughts) about loosing power, came to a fixed idea.

Question 13

‘why a snail has a house’

Answer 13

acting as a truth teller, metaphor of snail always carrying house on back- key to survival and gave it way, got nothing

Question 14

winters not gone yet if the wild geese fly away

Answer 14

prediction.foreshadow ‘bad weather ahead’ after kent honest to lear about locked up

Question 15

fathers that bare bags shall see their children kind

Answer 15

spoilt children, wheel of fortune, to get what they can, never favours poor ‘have nothing demand nothing’
have no griefs with no money

Question 16

noses are led by eyes but blind men

Answer 16

sight reference, highlights lear lack followers as can see getting bad (own fault?) ‘get crushed too’ wheel of fortune illusion, foreshadow

Question 17

brewers mar their walk with water act3s2
slanders do not live in toungs

Answer 17

oppositons role reversal- enhaving stuff will get worse then eventually get better -links geese quote.

Question 18

‘madman be a gentleman or a yeoman’
‘gentalman to his son’ act3s5

Answer 18

idea of role reversal kids>parents

Question 19

and ill go to bed at noon
act3s5

Answer 19

last line
-no longer has prupose>lear lost to oblivion insanity
-role done with shift in lear perspective
coredlia is back
foreshadows fools death