King Lear Context

Question 1

Act 5’s notability in literature

Answer 1

One most tragic endings, play presents the central relationship between Cordelia and Lear as a dramatic endowment of true, self sacrificing love

Question 2

Due to women’s subservience to men contextually, William presents women who gain power as …

Answer 2

Monsters

Question 3

Fools job

Answer 3

To tell the monarch when they were messing up as no one else would, it was their job to be cruel

Question 4

Shakespeare plays for..

Answer 4

Both ‘stinkers’ (illiterate)on ground and educated in seats

Question 5

Trail by

Answer 5

Combat

- god lets morally right win

Question 6

Elizabeth’s I possible impact on representation of women

Answer 6

Shakespeare wrote plays for her, knew what a powerful women was like and what she needed to remain powerful

Question 7

Why was society anxious about the monarch after Elisabeth I

Answer 7

Refused to appoint until last minute, causing nerve

Question 8

Storm scene reduces humanity to

Answer 8

Bugs or animals crawling around aimlessly in the dirt - no mans land