Why does Iago hate Othello? Because Othello made Cassio his lieutenant, instead of Iago Why does Iago choose to stay under Othello’s command? To get back at Othello Does Brabantio like Roderigo at first? Why or why not? No, because…
King Lear quotes act 4,5
i have no way and therfore want no eyes. i stumbled when i saw. gloucester there is a cliff, whose high and bending head looks fearfully in the confined deep gloucester decline your head. this kiss, if durst speak, would…
July 3, 2019
King Lear: Contexts (AO4)
Religion (as in ‘King Lear’, the secular clashes with the sacred) – Both Shakespeare’s father and his daughter Susanna were fined for their refusal to attend Protestant services (as they were Catholics)- Shakespeare was probably a ‘tolerant’ Anglican, with some…
July 3, 2019
King Lear Definitions
abate to reduce in intensity or amount amity friendship auspicious favorable baseness the quality of lacking higher values bedlam a place or scene of wild and mad uproar; an extremely confusing scene beguile the deceive, to mislead, to persuade with…
July 3, 2019
Madness in King Lear
Attitudes to Insanity The response to madness was harsh and unsympathetic. The common belief was that people showing signs of madness were possessed by devils and that they should be confined in a dark place and whipped. The Storm The…
July 3, 2019
Language in King Lear
King Lear is written in Blank Verse and Prose Blank Verse has unrhymed iambic pentameters Shakespeare doesn’t stick to Blank Verse rigidly as he uses shorter lines for emphasis Shakespeare uses short lines in scenes of chaos Longer lines are…
July 3, 2019
King Lear D2 Act 2
1. Act 2 scene 2 (at end of scene when Cornwall and Regan have him in stocks) Kent : Nothing almost sees miracles but misery: I know ’tis Cordelia who hath most fortunately been informed of my obscured course. 2…
July 3, 2019
King Lear Act 4 Study Questions
Why does Edgar tell Gloucester the way they are traveling is ” horrible steep’? Gloucester asked him to lead him to the edge of a cliff; Edgar is trying to convince him that’s where they are headed. What details does…
July 3, 2019
King Lear
author William Shakespeare main characters Lear and 3 daughters: Goneril, Regan, Cordelia; Gloucester and 2 sons: Edgar (good), Edmund (bastard) main idea deals with conflict between fathers and children’ also has implications relating to pride and its consequences Lear had…
July 3, 2019