Act 4

Question 1

Gloucester being ironic about sight

Answer 1

‘I have no way and therefore want no eyes/ I stumbled when I saw’

Question 2

Gloucester comparing

Answer 2

‘As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods/ they kill is for their sport’

Question 3

Goneril insulting Albany

Answer 3

‘Milk-livered man’

Question 4

Goneril insulting Albany again

Answer 4

‘A moral fool’

Question 5

Cordelia crying about her father

Answer 5

‘She shook the holy water from her heavenly eyes’

Question 6

Why Lear won’t see Cordelia

Answer 6

‘Burning shame’

Question 7

What Lear is wearing

Answer 7

‘Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow weeds’

Question 8

Reference to what Jesus said

Answer 8

‘Oh dear father. It is thy business I go about’

Question 9

Cordelia invading England

Answer 9

‘No blown ambition/ but love dear love’

Question 10

Edgar talking to Gloucester

Answer 10

‘Thy life’s a miracle, the gods have preserved thee’

Question 11

Gloucester to Edgar

Answer 11

‘Henceforth I’ll bear affliction’

Question 12

Lear talking about Goneril and Regan

Answer 12

‘They flattered me like a dog and told me I had white hairs in my beard

Question 13

Lear’s anagnorisis

Answer 13

‘They told me I was everything: I am not ague proof’

Question 14

Oswald talking about Gloucester

Answer 14

‘A proclaimed prize, most happy’

Question 15

Cordelia talking about Lear

Answer 15

‘O my dear father! Let this kiss repair those violent harms that my two sisters have made’

Question 16

Lear realising Cordelia

Answer 16

‘My child, Cordelia’