Q1. What con?icts peak in Act 111? How can we consider Act III the climax of the play?
Q2. How has Lear changed?
Q3. How does the weather re?ect the plot? What insight do we gain from Lear 's interaction with the storm?
Q4. Is Lear crazy in Scene 2? (it might be best to define crazy before we begin)
Q5. Is Lear "more sinned against than sinning" (3.2.60-61)? Support.
Q6. What are Lear's feelings concerning the Fool? How do we know?
Q7. Look at the Fool's prophecy at the end of Scene 2. How is this significant? Has it come to pass?
Q8. What is ironic about the loss of Gloucester's eyes?
Q9. How does Shakespeare's use of language at the end of the Act indicate a change in tone? What does this foreshadow about the remainder of the play?