LEAR

Question 1

disowning cordelia
‘we’ ‘‘i’

Answer 1

switches from role of king to father
switched too late? king all he knows?
genuinely hurt

Question 2

disowning cordelia after humilated

Answer 2

king took over - crazy? no other choice as in public- playing his role? never been told no- lack vision
should spoke up before hand

Question 3

banishing kent

Answer 3

had to look powerful, not over took- no choice? going mad

Question 4

old fond eyes sweep this cause again and ill pluck ye eye out
act 1 s4

Answer 4

gonerill got rid of nights- demasculized crying, women over man. reference to sight blindness - trusted gonerill. women shoudnt be in control

Question 5

dry up in her organs increase
act1 s4

Answer 5

reaction to goneril asking to get rid of knights. extreme: infertile women purpose, g plan as knights all he’s got - plan to anger him or actual concern

Question 6

does any here know me?
act 1 s4

Answer 6

1 role his whole life, questioning why people disregarding, role is disappearing, does he know himself- on the verge of madness

Question 7

‘let me not be mad, not mad sweet hevan’

Answer 7

knows he might be going ban, expressing fear for loss of sanity, foreshadowing eventual insanity. praying to heaven

Question 8

deny to speak with me?
act 2 s4

Answer 8

arrogance, accepts no other option, still thinks has power not reached agnoriss yet, struggles with no power unstable reaction (calm then uncalm)

Question 9

return to her?
rather abjure all roofs
-decline saying sorry/20 guards ‘
let not women weapons water drops stain my cheeks

Answer 9

face dark/turbelent night than keep company of daughters that rq to give up followers - smarter/agnorisis? tries to regain order in his life hasty actions though
represents kingliness/power

Question 10

in my corrupted blood

Answer 10

makes excuse /accept responsibility for g behaviour-links to fools prediction his choices as father determined her actions - wheel of fortune

Question 11

nature repetition act 2 s4

Answer 11

natural order for king/god, dependent on love for survival compared to g+r rejection of love, changed from the start(wheel of fortune)

Question 12

lear setting into storm end act2s4

Answer 12

represents disarray in life/sadness, trying to regain power/order/purpose due to loss of duaghters/kingship

Question 13

till you have drenched out steeples, drowned the cocks
act 3 s2

Answer 13

hyperbole- wants the world to end +shouting at heavens/god shows not fully mad. sees himself as victim

Question 14

gods find out their enemies now
act3 s2

Answer 14

storm undercover the crimes- g+r lying uncovered- enhanced, as power has been taken

Question 15

‘i am a man more sinned agaisnt then sinning’ act3 s 2

Answer 15

concequeneses of what hes done isnt proportional. (sinned by title as whole/1 role whole life-lack insight on pedstool) or g+r neg treated expecitng to keep authroity
storm enhacning proves this point, reversal of social order.

Question 16

my wits begin to turn
act 3 s2

Answer 16

lear now compramises, shows concern- learning becoming a man- king title devaluing but for the better? more insight he is becomming better to his title is what blocked him

Question 17

vile things precious act3 s2

Answer 17

when have nothing-something is good. more grateful/compasion idea of materislm. king into man now being treated normally getter smerter and learning too late?

Question 18

thou shun bear but if thy lay toward the roaring sea thoudnt meet the bear
act3s4

Answer 18

symbolic connect with storm and effected of loss of power/daughters, storm ranging in head harsher than storm, past said wouldn’t cry-totally ruined by power

Question 19

expose thyself to feel what wretches feel
act3s4

Answer 19

now poor/no power= relataiton/anagsoris slight of a bad king he has been and blinded by title (sin in itself) too late now though as expericieng being a normal human being /other priotires

Question 20

death traitor, nothing could have subdued nature to lowness but unkind daughters
act3s4

Answer 20

repetition for banish kent at start(does like to hear certain things)still being self centred its embedded into him , not fully learning yet

Question 21

the beast no hide, sheep no wool, cat no perfume

Answer 21

Shakespeare links to nature and natural order destroyed. Edgar has nothing -takes of own clothes as view as equal(learning?)owe nothing to no one true form of man. glimpse of sanity(rest of body cold)

Question 22

a king a king
act3s5

Answer 22

replying to mad man be a gentleman or yeoman- shows lack of sight, turning mad, still belie got authority

Question 23

I entertain you for one of my hundred knights
we’ll go supper in the morning
ac3s5

Answer 23

highlighting madness getting worser, insanity worser

Question 24

‘ay and no to was no good divinity’
act 4 s5

Answer 24

acknowledging through madness that people who agree on everything are good/helpful , need people like kent/cordelia. all characters coming together in this scene. storm helped him recognise +Edgar sees sense through this madness. known of mistakes.

Question 25

down from the waste their all centaurs
act 4 s5

Answer 25

switches from prose to poetry+ lang of sexual disgust. women are liars/not innocent as been let down by all women in his life. sight.

Question 26

robes and furred gowns hide it all’
why do those lash that whore
act 4 s5
joining out injustices of world

Answer 26

injustice/unequality- punishing prostitutes not the ones who buy. links to fools reference of things being back to front- lear is gaining sight/anagroiss sense through the madness. being at bottom of wow helped learn lessons/see clarity. + rich people/high of authority pay their way out avoiding the injustices/unfairness or poor people. materialism. like todays society-lawyers. seen needs to help people