Madness

• What is the first type of Renaissance madness?

  Madness by Romantic Identification
• What does madness by romantic identification involve?

  Believing yourself to be someone you aren’t
• What is the second type of Renaissance madness?

  Madness of vain presumption
• What is an example of madness of vain presumption?

  Malvolio in Twelfth Night
• What is the third type of Renaissance madness?

  Madness of just punishment
• What is an example of madness of just punishment?

  Lady Macbeth's "what, will these hands ne’er be clean"
• What is the fourth type of Renaissance madness?

  Madness of desperate passion
• What causes madness of desperate passion?

  The result of unrequited love
• Which character exemplifies madness of desperate passion?

  Romeo in the tomb
• What does Romeo do in the tomb?

  He kills Paris and himself
• What became the great sin of the modern world?

  Idleness
• How was madness perceived in the modern world?

  Through a condemnation of idleness
• Who were locked up along with the mad?

  The homeless and unemployed
• What did madness no longer bring?

  Truth
• What did madness become associated with?

  Error, misperception, gibberish, or nothing
• What does punishment in Shakespeare's works address?

  Vanity, pride, ambition, and crime
• What can punishment do to a character?

  Liberate truth and return them to themselves
• How is madness perceived by other characters?

  As nothingness, gibberish, and misperception
• What is the significance of the extract in relation to the tragedy of the play?

  • People without power are instruments of justice
  • They often fail to achieve justice
  • The stabbing of the servant symbolizes silencing
  • Those without entitlement have a stronger sense of morality
• What does Gloucester's blinding symbolize?

  The culmination of the imagery around eyesight
• What is ironic about Gloucester's blindness?

  He sees the world properly when blind
• What has Gloucester been blind to?

  His neglect and abuse of his son
• What does the Fool say to Lear?

  “Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise”