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1
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What does hysterica passio mean?

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The mother

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What is ‘the mother’ in latin?

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Hysterica passio

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What is the definition of hysterica passio?

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A sense of choking + suffocation starting from the heart - thought to begin in the womb

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What does Lear calling upon hysterica passio infer?

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He’s suffering from a ‘woman’s disease’ - may refer to an inversion of natural order

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What is Goneril compared to by Lear in act 2, scene 4? (1)

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Like a vulture pecking out his heart

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What animal does Lear compare Goneril to a2,s4? (2)

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A serpent that attacked his heart

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What does Lear say to Goneril about flesh and disease?

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He calls her his flesh and blood, or rather a disease in his flesh

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How does Lear dirogitoraly refer to Goneril + Regan?

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“unnatural hags”

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9
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What does Cordelia mean?

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Heart/warmth

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What might the meaning of Cordelia’s name suggest?

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She represents warmth and kindness

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What birds does Lear compare Goneril + Regan to? What does this mean?

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“Pelicans not daughters”
Pelicans fed on the flesh of their parents

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What does Lear do in a1s1 that shows his view of women?

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Cordelia refused to obey him so he offers her to one of her suitors

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13
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Which critic referred to women in Lear as “hyenas in lipstick”?

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Winterson

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14
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What did Goneril + Regan depend on as women? What might this explain?

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As women, they regarded on money to survive
This may explain their false words at the start + their treatment/wish to overthrow Lear

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What can we deduce about Cordelia’s silence?

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She is either conforming to expectations as a woman by staying silent
Or she is defying authority through a lack of speech + standing up

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What does Lear say about Cordelia’s disobedience + nature? What does this mean?

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“Nature is ashamed almost t’acknowledge herself”
C subverts standards of women to the point where nature is ashamed

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What does Goneril do to Gloucester that subverts standards?

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She gauges out his eyes

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18
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How does Gloucester insult Edmund at the start of the play? How is this misogynistic?

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G calls E a “whoreson” for his illegitimate birth
This shows how even an insult to a man had to be at the expense of a woman

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How does Winterson refer to women in the play?

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Hyenas in lipstick

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20
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How is Cordelia presented?

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Unflinchingly loyal, pure and unselfish

21
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How are Goneril + Regan presented?

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Violent and malicious

22
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How are Goneril + Regan similar to their father?

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Arrogance, fierce temper + pride

23
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How is Cordelia similar to Lear?

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Courage and stubbornness

24
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What was expected of women in the 1600s?

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Expected to be silent, chaste + confined to the household
Their identity submerged in the father or husband

25
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What does Cordelia represent?

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Possibly the ideal 1600 woman

26
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How is Cordelia not the ideal 16th century woman?

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She refuses to engage with Lear’s test

27
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What does Lear say in reference to Cordelia after he dismisses her?

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“When she was dear to us we held her so, but now her price is fallen”

28
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What does Lear say to Burgundy about Cordelia? What does this mean?

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“new adopted our hate”
He’s just begun hating her

29
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What did Goneril say about Lear’s age?

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“Old fools are babes again”

30
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What does Lear call Nature to do to?

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“Convey sterility”
“From her derogate body never spring a babe”

31
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What does Lear want Nature to turn Goneril’s pains into?

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“Turn all her mother’s pains + benefits to laughter and contempt”

32
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What does Regan do when Cornwall is talking? When is this?

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Interrupts him
When Cornwall is explaining to Gloucester why they’re visiting him

33
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What did Regan tell Cornwall to do?

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Encourages Cornwall to keep Kent in the stocks “till noon! till night”

34
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What does Lear compare Goneril to?

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A vulture that pecks at his heart

35
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What does Lear beg from Cordelia + Regan? What does this show?

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Old people don’t need much just bed and food
Reversal of roles

36
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What does Lear call Goneril + Regan?

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“Unnatural hags”

37
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What does Lear call his daughters in act 3, scene 4? What does this mean?

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“Pelican daughters”
Young pelicans were thought to devour the flesh of their parents

38
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What does Regan call her servant?

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A dog

39
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What does Regan convince Cornwall to do?

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Pluck out one of Gloucesters eyes

40
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What does Regan tell Cornwall when he’s plucked out one of Gloucesters eyes?

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“One side will mock another; t’other too”

41
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What does Regan tell Cornwall to let Gloucester do?

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“Let him smell his way to Dover”

42
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What does Albany tell Goneril, his wife will happen? What does this refer to?

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“Humanity must perforce prey on itself, like monsters of the deep”
Cannibalism

43
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What does Goneril call Albany? What does this mean?

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“Milk liver’d man”
Coward

44
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What does the Gentleman describe to Kent about Cordelia?

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“An ample tear trill’d down her delicate cheek”
She cried for her father when reading the letter

45
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What does Cordelia say to Lear in act 3, scene 7?

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“Repair those violent harms that my 2 sisters have in thy reverence made”

46
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What does the fact that we only see fathers in the play show?

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Patriarchal idea that children owe their existence to their fathers alone

47
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What does the end of the play mark?

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The death of all female characters - the new suggested order is entirely male

48
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What does Lynn say about women in literature?

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“women overwhelmingly have been presented as either evil vixens or innocent virgins”

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