Final Review (Fall Quarter) Flashcards
(83 cards)
People with Lewy body dementia may experience ______
disinhibitions
Shakespeare used a ____ as a metaphor for King Lear’s mind
storm
Lear plans on spending his remaining years visiting his ____
daughters
_____ said “Unhappy that i am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. I love your majesty According to my bond; nor more nor less.” when sharing her true ____ with her ____
Cordelia, feelings, father
The “social contract” that takes place in fiction is that the reader participates in a willful suspension of ____ regarding the events that take place in a work of _____
disbelief, fiction
Examples of the basis of a narrative:
1) ____
2) a First Nations people’s ___ ____
3) an ___ ____
storytelling, creation myth, oral history
According to the definition of a narrative that Dr. Kristal presented, the minimal condition for which a narrative is using ____ to connect two points in ____
words, time
In the course of the play, Lear learns that he has neglected the ____ people of his kingdom
poor
____ scolds Lear about his bad decisions regarding his daughters in Act 1, Scene 1
Kent
The line “my thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations” is an example of a ____
metaphor
Simon Russel Beale played Lear if he had ___ ____ ____
Lewy body dementia
In Shakespeare’s time, the thought there were ___ ventricles in the head that contained a liquid that was _____
3, “thought”
Psychology in Shakespeare’s time had the ___ connected to the ____ and the ___ connected with the ____
senses, ventricles, eye, ventricles
Front ventricle –> ability to ___
middle ventricle –> ____
last ventricle –> ______
reason, imagination, memory
Interactions between bodily organs in Shakespeare’s time:
four ____ enter body as _____; ____ turns it into ____ spirits; then goes to the ___ which turns it into ___ spirits; then goes to the ____ which turns it into ____ spirits
elements, food; liver, natural; heart, vital; brain, animal
Interactions between bodily organs in Shakespeare’s time:
Idea is that basic appetite are developed in the ___ and are purified into ____ and then purified into ____ ____
liver, emotions, higher thinking
Lear’s original plan was to give:
Albany/Goneril –> the ____
Cornwall/ Regan –> the _____
Burgundy(her suitor)/Cordelia –> ____
north, southwest, london
Indications Lear isn’t thinking straight:
1) ____ questions Lear’s decisions
2) discards his well-thought ____
3) unnecessarily asks daughters who ___ him most when he already divided the kingdom
4) not waiting for all to answer before ____ the kingdom
Kent, plan, loves, dividng
After Lear disowns Cordelia, more indications Lear isn’t thinking straight:
1) ____ questions Lear
2) hands crown to ____ and ____ telling them to share it
3) everything he has planned is now a _____
Kent, Albany, Cornwall, disaster
The human body and literary character:
brain –> ____
heart –> ____
liver –> ____
reason, emotions, appetites
Logic of Lear’s first speech in the storm (Act 3, Scene 2, p. 148):
1) I’m so unhappy with the world, let ____ destroy the world and ___ with it
2) I can’t blame nature for harming me, as nature does not owe me anything, and those who treated me badly
3) wait a minute: is nature the ___ of my ___ who mistreated me?
nature, me; all, duaghters
Lear learns:
1) he _____ his own people even thought he was a successful ____ and ____ man
2) ___ people are presumed ____ and ____ lie about obvious truths
neglected, politician, military; poor, guilty, politicians
“…let me have surgeons; I am cut to the brains” is Lear aware he can’t sustain his ____ and that his ____ is suffering (dementia)
insights, brain
On page 224, the doctor and Cordelia assess Lear’s condition as his ____ has potential to put his ___ in danger
madness, life
