Context

Question 1

Aristotelian Tragic Hero

Answer 1

• hamartia (vanity + lack of insight)
• downfall (both deaths)
• catharsis (debatable)
• anagnorisis (recognition of flaw)

Question 2

DROK

Answer 2

• Christian ideology
• God ordains the monarch
• Monarch has God-given power

Question 3

GCOB

Answer 3

• Christian ideology
• hierarchy, God at the top, monarch right under
• anything ‘unnatural’ ruptured its security
• structure had to remain intact

Question 4

Pronouns + Grammar

Answer 4

• you vs. thou
• grammar lacked formulated rules so authors were accustomed to bend it to their service
• meanings of words changed (happily=luckily)

Question 5

Political Commentary + the Gunpowder Plot

Answer 5

• political tensions at the times portrayed in KL
• power dynamics in a social context
• Gunpower Plot significantly boosted security + superiority around monarch

Question 6

Staging + Props

Answer 6

• frugal use of props
• map is significant (1993 London adaptation “papered the stage floor” and was “gradually ripped and shredded” (Holland))