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Study Guide on King Lear: Act IV Scene II

Study Guide on King Lear: Act IV Scene II. Tess Boutros Ms. Junjulas AP Literature & Composition November 13, 2013. Questions 5 & 6 Handout 16. What do we discover about Edmund and Goneril ?. How has Albany changed since our last view of him? What is he determined to do?.

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Study Guide on King Lear: Act IV Scene II

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  1. Study Guide on King Lear:Act IV Scene II Tess Boutros Ms. Junjulas AP Literature & Composition November 13, 2013

  2. Questions 5 & 6 Handout 16 What do we discover about Edmund and Goneril? How has Albany changed since our last view of him? What is he determined to do? Albany has changed a lot. He no longer wants to be apart of the destructive plan. He is ashamed of what Goneril and Edmund are doing. He is determined to stop them. • They are plotting together to take over the kingdom. • They are lovers.

  3. Plot Summary • Scene 2 starts near the Duke of Albany’s Palace • Edmund and Goneril are there when Oswald enters. • Oswald tells them that Albany is disgusted with their plot and that he laughed when he told him that the French army is coming. • Goneril tells Edmund not to worry because Albany is too big of a coward to do anything. • She then hints at the murder of Albany. • Goneril kisses Edmund and sends him to Cornwall. • Albany enters the room and tells Goneril that she’s garbage and that he wants nothing to do with her. • Albany says, “You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face.” • Who is Albany speaking to? • Why is he talking to her like this? • What as she done that Albany is so angry?

  4. Plot Summary (continued) • Albany says, “Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves. What have you done? Tigers, not daughters, what have you performed?” • What does this quote mean? • How does this almost summarize the play? • Albany and Goneril both tell each other how much they despise one another. • Goneril says that Albany is a doormat and Albany says that Goneril is a monster. • He also tells her that if she weren’t a woman he would hit her. • A messenger arrives and announces that Cornwall is dead. • He tells him that he died by the sword of his servant while he was gouging out Gloucester’s eyes. • Albany is shocked; this was the first he heard of the gouging of Gloucester’s eyes.

  5. Goneril says that Albany is a doormat and Albany says that Goneril is a monster. • He also tells her that if she weren’t a woman he would hit her. • A messenger arrives and announces the Cornwall is dead. • He tells him that he died by the sword of his servant while he was gouging out Gloucester’s eyes. • Albany is shocked; this was the first he heard of the gouging of Gloucester’s eyes. • Albany than says, “You justicers, that these our nether crimes So speedily can venge!” • What does he mean by this? • What does this tell us about Albany? • Albany than shouts his thanks for Gloucester’s loyalty to the king. • He asks the messenger to tell him everything he knows.

  6. Shakespeare’s Purpose • To reveal Albany’s true character. • To show that Albany is not a bad guy and that he learns to stick up for himself and for what he believes in. • To display Goneril and Edmund’s relationship. • To foreshadow that Goneril and Edmund will be defeated together.

  7. Literary Elements in King Lear • “Decline your head: this kiss, if it durst speak, Would stretch thy spirits up into the air…” A. Characterization B. Personification C. Alliteration D. Hyperbole E. Soliloquy pg. 198

  8. Literary Elements in King Lear • “Decline your head: this kiss, if it durst speak, Would stretch thy spirits up into the air…” A. Characterization B. Personification C. Alliteration D. Hyperbole E. Soliloquy

  9. Literary Elements in King Lear “One way I like this well; But being widow, and my Gloucester with her, May all the building in my fancy pluck Upon my hateful life: another way, The news is not so tart.” A. Characterization B. Personification C. Alliteration D. Hyperbole E. Soliloquy pg. 202

  10. Literary Elements in King Lear “One way I like this well; But being widow, and my Gloucester with her, May all the building in my fancy pluck Upon my hateful life: another way, The news is not so tart.” A. Characterization B. Personification C. Alliteration D. Hyperbole E. Soliloquy

  11. Literary Elements in King Lear “One way I like this well; But being widow, and my Gloucester with her, May all the building in my fancy pluck Upon my hateful life: another way, The news is not so tart.” This is Soliloquy because Goneril is talking to herself. Only Goneril and the audience know what she is saying.

  12. Change in Albany Act I Act IV Both • Albany is a coward • He is afraid to tell Goneril that he thinks what she is doing is wrong • He doesn’t share his opinion. • Albany share his opinion openly. • He tells Goneril that he thinks what she is doing is horrible. • He is no longer afraid of Goneril. • He believes that Regan and Goneril are wrong for lying about their love for their father. • He is loyal to the king. • He believes that elders should be respected.

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