cordelia

Question 1

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Answer 1

“i was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia’s death, that i know not whether i ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play until i undertook to revise them as an editor.”

Question 2

ARNOLD KETTLE

Answer 2

“it is Cordelia who, at the beginning of the story, is the heroic one”

Question 3

MARILYN FRENCH

Answer 3

“she does not feed Lear’s delusion of control”

Question 4

DUTHIE

Answer 4

“surely her affection for her father might have led her to pardon his error, and to humour him a little”