Shakespeare

Question 1

Ambition

Answer 1

• drives the couple to ever more terrible atrocities

- once one decides to use violence to further ones quest for power, it is difficult to stop

Question 2

Gender Roles

Answer 2

• gender is out of traditional order
• > lady M’s usurpation of the dominate role in marriage
• > she rules her husband and dictates his actions

Question 3

Cruelty and masculinity

Answer 3

• lady M manipulates husband by questioning us manhood
  She wishes to be “unsexed”
• M and Lady M equate masculinity with naked aggressions

Question 4

Sonnets

Answer 4

• iambic pentameter
• 3 quatrains and 1 couplet
• rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
• the turn: a change I’d thought sometimes introduced by “but”