Themes
Lesson learned through Edgar's Reunion with his father Gloucestor and King Lear's Realization about his daughters.
Value your family?
The last one alive.
Who is Edgar at the end of the play?
The daughter that does not say she loves Lear.
Who is Cordelia?
Why brand they us
With "base," with "baseness," "bastardy," "base..."
What is aliteration?
Shakespere
Who wrote the play King Lear?
An overarching life concept learned through the deaths at the end of the play.
Life is suffering?
Cordelia goes here for the majority of the play.
Where is France?
He wants to help Lear, but Lear pushes him away.
Who is Kent?
Represented through eyes being removed.
What is the vision motif?
Blank Verse and Prose
What is the format of the play?
Lear is an example that this is true through his mistakes with his daughters.
Good leaders are kind?
What is a love triangle?
Physically loses his sight.
Who is Gloucestor?
The contrast between Regan and Goneril versus Cordelia's opinions on love.
What is FOIL characters?
Life is uncertain
What is the theme that inspired Shakespere to write the play?
Cordelia's statement at the beginning of the play reveals what is important.
Value what is real?
Glouster believes this occurred to him, but in reality, Edgar tricked him.
What is falling off a cliff?
Provides truthful statements throughout the play.
Who is the fool?
Kent returns in disguise, and Lear doesn't recognize him.
What is dramatic irony?
English Folklore
What stories inspired Shakespeare to write King Lear?
A realization exemplified through the varying power of different characters.
Social inequalities exist?
This sends Lear into the height of his madness.
What is his daughter's betrayal?
His madness is a false persona.
Who is Edgar?
Lear's false and crazy language.
What is the madness motif?
Events that inspired the idea of unity among nations within the play.
What is the introduction of unity between Scotland and England during the time this was written?