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Dover, the blind Gloucester, and the reunion with Cordelia.
#ap_english_literature
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Gloucester says, "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; / They kill us for their sport." What view of suffering does the simile state?
Albany hears of Cornwall's death and says, "This shows you are above, / You justicers." What claim about justice does the speech make?
Waking before Cordelia, Lear says he is "bound / Upon a wheel of fire." What does the image say about his sense of himself?
Lear says, "When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this great stage of fools." What view of human life does the metaphor state?
Blinded, Gloucester says, "I stumbled when I saw." What does the paradox state about his self-knowledge?
Cordelia says, "No blown ambition doth our arms incite, / But love, dear love." What motive does she claim for the French force?
In Act 4, how does Edgar obtain the letter that exposes Goneril's plot with Edmund?
What causes Cornwall's death, as reported in Act 4?
Why does Gloucester ask to be led to the cliff at Dover?
Why does Goneril worry when she learns Cornwall is dead?
Why does Oswald try to kill Gloucester near Dover?
Edgar describes a cliff that is not there, and Gloucester falls on level ground. What does staging Dover in words alone accomplish?
Edgar keeps guiding Gloucester while still disguised as Poor Tom. What does that staging choice accomplish?
Lear enters "crown'd" with weeds and flowers. What does this visual parody of a crown accomplish?
Edgar reads Goneril's letter aloud after Oswald dies. What does that onstage reading accomplish?
Lear is awakened with music while Cordelia watches. What does staging the reunion as a gradual waking accomplish?
Lear says, "I am a very foolish fond old man." What has changed in the way he speaks of himself?
After the imagined fall, Gloucester says, "Henceforth I'll bear / Affliction." What change does this speech mark?
Albany calls Goneril and Regan "Tigers, not daughters." What recognition does the metaphor mark?
Lear tells Cordelia, "You have some cause, they have not." What recognition does this line show?
Act 4 ends with Lear and Cordelia reunited, but which matter remains unsettled?
By the end of Act 4, which rivalry has the play left unresolved?
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