Fathers and Children

Question 1

Gloucesters feelings on Edmunds illegitimacy

Answer 1

‘Though this knave came something saucily to the world’

Question 2

Gloucester to Edmund

Answer 2

‘The whoreson must be aknowledged’

Question 3

Lear on love

Answer 3

‘Which of you shall we say dost love us most’

Question 4

Regan on her love for Lear (faked)

Answer 4

‘I profess myself an enemy to all other joys’

Question 5

Cordelia on being misunderstood by lear on her love

Answer 5

‘So young and untender?’
‘So young, my lord, and true’

Question 6

Lear on marrying Cordelia off

Answer 6

‘Take her or leave her’

Question 7

Cordelia on her fathers blindness

Answer 7

‘The jewels of our father, with washed eyes/ Cordelia leaves you’

Question 8

Edmund on his revenge of baseness in persuit of society and his fathers approval

Answer 8

‘Our father’s love is to the bastard Edmund as to the legitimate’

Question 9

Gloucester and Edmund first interaction being immoral

Answer 9

‘Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?’

Question 10

Gloucester’s betrayal by Edgar

Answer 10

‘Theres son against father’

Question 11

Goneril avoiding Lear

Answer 11

‘Say I am sick’
‘Put on what weary negligence you please’

Question 12

Goneril on Lear’s authority

Answer 12

‘Old fools are babes again’

Question 13

Goneril’s authority over Lear

Answer 13

‘As you are old and reverend’

Question 14

Lear’s cruel words to Goneril

Answer 14

‘Into her womb convey sterility’
‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth’

Question 15

Lear’s admittance to Goneril’s authority

Answer 15

‘That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus’

Question 16

The Fools wise words to Lear on how children react to their fathers

Answer 16

‘Fathers that wear rags
Do make their children blind
But fathers that bear bags
Shall see their children kind’

Question 17

Lear’s cruel words to his daughters

Answer 17

‘Thou art a boil
A plague sore, or embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood’

Question 18

Lear on his daughter’s treatment of him

Answer 18

‘No you unnatural hags, i will have such revenges on you both’

Question 19

Goneril on Lear going into nature

Answer 19

‘Tis his own blame’

Question 20

Lear using weather to punish daughters (pathetic fallacy?)

Answer 20

‘Tremble, thou wretch’

Question 21

Edmund on generational conflict

Answer 21

‘The younger rises when the old doth fall.’

Question 22

Lear’s nonchalantness on Regan being mauled

Answer 22

‘Anatomize regan; see what breeds about her heart’

Question 23

Gloucester’s yearning for Edgar when he’s gone blind

Answer 23

‘O dear son Edgar, The food of thy abused father’s wrath, Might I but live to see thee in my touch’

Question 24

Intergenerational shift of Edgar and Gloucester

Answer 24

‘Poor Tom shall lead thee’

Question 25

Cordelia and Lear's returned meeting

Answer 25

'Repair those violent harms that my two sisters Have in thy reverence made.'

Question 26

Edgar on his view on Edmund and his father

Answer 26

'Thou art a traitor: False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father'

Question 27

Edgar's identity related to his father

Answer 27

'My name is Edgar and thy father's son'

Question 28

Lear on Cordelia being dead

Answer 28

'Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have a life And thou no breath at all?'