King Lear
Edgar
Gloucester
Edmund
General Facts
100
This character found King Lear and the fool first.
Who is Kent?
100
King Lear assumed that this character gave all his possessions to his daughters.
Who is Poor Tom/Edgar?
100
was in a parallel situation as king Lear. had his sons do to him what king Lear's daughters did to king Lear.
who is Gloucester?
100
Edmund's new position given by Cornwall.
What is Earl of Gloucester?
100
The philosopher who is identified by King Lear by this term, who he stays to speak with.
Who is Poor Tom?
200
The reason why Lear wants to be alone and turns to the wilderness.
What is the daughter's betrayal?
200
we notice that Edgar replaces the role of this character in this scene?
who is the fool?
200
assumes this about king Lear after Edgars comment.
when does Gloucester seems worried about the king hanging out with beggars? "What, hath your grace no better company?"(scene 4 line 135)
200
this is where Cornwall asks Edmund to got with him,
What is the "duchess" (scene 5 line 12)?
200
"I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter." (scene 4 line 5)
What is the motif of loyalty?
300
Lear says this when he goes on to observe that Edgar would be better off dead than exposing his "uncovered body.”
when does Lear say “thou wert better in a grave than to answer with thy uncover’d body to this extremity of the skies” (line 97-98)
300
after the conversation between Edgar and Lear the fool does this.
when does the Fool try to stop Lear, declaring that while he has a hot heart, the rest of his body is still rather cold, and at risk of exposure, in more than one sense of the word? (scene 4 line 105-108)
300
Gloucester says this which proves his failure in recognising his own son as poor tom.
when Gloucester says "Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord, That it doth hate what gets it." (scene 4 line 138-139)
300
when does Edmund say in act3 scene 5 when he hopes that when he finds his father, the man will be comforting Lear, because then Gloucester will be doubly implicated for crimes.
when he says "[Aside] If I find him comforting the king, it will stuff his suspicion more fully.--I will persevere in my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and my blood. " (scene 5 line 18-21)?
300
this is the significance of act 3 scene 4.
what is King Lear's realization when he meets poor tom and see's the state he is in?
400
this is the assumption Lear makes when he see's poor tom.
what does Lear do when he says -“Didst thou give all to thy daughters? And art thou come to this?” (Line 48 scene 4 act 3) ?
400
Edgar describes himself as this, when called a beggar by Gloucester?
why does Edgar say "The prince of darkness is a gentleman" (scene 4 line 136)
400
Gloucester finally convinces Lear to come out of the elements, but Lear wants to take this with him.
who is the naked crazy man "poor tom"?
400
Cornwall sees Gloucester's actions as treasonous, and describes him as having this.
What is a "reproveable badness" (III.5.6)?
400
this is a imagery of Goneril's and Regan's betrayal towards King Lear
What is when King Lear says "To such a lowness but his unkind daughters. Is it the fashion, that discarded fathers Should have thus little mercy on their flesh? Judicious punishment! 'twas this flesh begot 75 Those pelican daughters." (scene 4 line 67-72)
500
this is the dramatic significance of Lear’s cry “Off, off, you lending’s! Come, unbutton here." (scene 4 line 106
what is the quote when the sight of Poor Tom (aka Edgar), madness comes upon Lear and he thinks that Tom has been brought to him by his ungrateful daughters, In Poor Tom, Lear sees himself brought to the lowest level of human existence, Lear begins to feel guilt, and tosses away his clothing, ready to commence a new life of humility, justice and love?
500
This scene reminds the audience that very little separates man from beast. The fragility of man is inescapable, because only a fine line divides civilized and uncivilized states.
the significance of lines 81-106 in scene 4
500
Gloucester says this about himself to Kent?
when does Gloucester say that he is driven half mad with grief regarding his son’s betrayal? (scene 4 line 159-162)
500
the betrayal of Gloucester by Edmund is more sinister and heartless than that of Lear by Goneril and Regan.
why does Edmund put in so much effort in building up his trust towards Gloucester to prove that he is the better son, whereas Regan and Goneril didn’t put in any or as much effort as much effort as Edmund they just described their false love for their father, and this was on the spot?
500
in these lines Lear claims to have borrowed these clothes from animals and concludes that clothing and social conventions are artificial additions to man's natural state.
the context of lines 97-104 in scene 4
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