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What is Iago’s complaint in Scene I? Cassio is lieutenant Iago believes he is a better soldier and moredeserving, Who is Brabantio, and why do Iago and Roderigo awaken him in the middle of the night? Desdemona’s fatherHe tells him…

“The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds The wind-shakes surge, with high and monstrous mane” Act 2 Scene 1 2 Gentlemen: Shakespeare immediately establishes a chaotic and turbulent setting foreshadowing the following events to come. In the original story…

What is Iago attempting to do to Othello in the opening of Act 4, Scene 1? What happens to Othello as a result of this? Iago attempts to stress Othello out by telling him that Desdemona has cheated on him.…

What Iago says to Brabantio in A1;S1 when he speaks about Othello using sheep imagery “Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe. … Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you”…

What is King Lear’s Tragic Flaw? Excessive pride and arrogance (Hubris) Who created the idea of a tragic hero? Aristotle Lear’s fortune turns from good to bad when he leaves Regan and Goneril. What part of the tragic hero’s path…

Tell me, my daughters -Since now we will divest us both of rule,Interest of territory, cares of state -Which you shall we say doth love us most,That we our largest bounty may extendWhere nature doth merit challenge. (I.i.52-58) Chronology: Act…

What question does Lear ask his daughters? How much do you love me? How does Lear expect his daughter’s to answer his question? He expects flattering rather than an honest answer from his daughters What answer does Cordelia give her…

At the start of Act 4, Gloucester plans to kill himself. How does he intend to dothis? by throwing himself off a cliff I have no way; therefore won’t no eyes; I___________ when I saw Stumbled As ___________ to wanton…

Lears self image is undermined “This is not Lear…Who is it who can tell me who I am?” Lear is pained to the point of insanity by his “?” “pelican daughters” In his madness Lear acquires a peculiar type of…

Nihilism the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless; Philosophy extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence. Lear King of Britain. Lear is used to enjoying absolute…