Identity and Appearance

Question 1

Lear’s hubristic appearance of himself

Answer 1

‘Come not between the dragon and his wrath’

Question 2

Edmunds illegitimacy

Answer 2

‘Why they brand us with base? With baseness, bastardy?’

Question 3

Lear’s description of Goneril

Answer 3

‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth’

Question 4

Lear’s continuous zoomorphic description of Goneril. (Her authority over him)

Answer 4

‘Wolfish visage’

Question 5

Edgar’s transition into poor Tom

Answer 5

‘Edgar I nothing am.’

Question 6

Fool’s wise words on Children
(Fool is actually wise combined with children taking advantage on appearance)

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Lear likening men to animals, powerful but easily overpowered by something else

Answer 7

‘Man’s life is cheap as beast’s’

Question 8

Lear on human to Edgar

Answer 8

‘Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art’