Lear and the Fool

1. How does William Shakespeare use changes in the Fools dialogue to mirror changes in Lears witness perspective? Choose quotes from the sheet that support your argument. 2. How does William Shakespeare use the Fool to reflect Lears own thoughts and fears? Use a quote from the sheet to support your argument. The Fools dialogue is like a mockery of King Lear he speaks pure honesty of Lear but adds hints of drollery to balance show up the offence implied. The Fool re-enacts King Lears life by acting out his choices and proves how much of an oblivious and simple fool King Lear was in front.The Fool creates a figure much like King Lear, to act out the foolish behaviour that Lear had behaved earlier such as giving his kingdom to his two daughters, Regan and Goneril because he had trusted them. Now that the true figure of his daughters have been revealed, showing their dishonesty and evil nature, King Lear is upset that he had held that much trust in them and the Fool is represent ed in there to show Lears nonstarter as a King. The quote, if thou wert my fool, nuncle, Id have thee beaten for being old before thy time represents that now the Fool believes that King Lear is now the real fool.Why did William Shakespeare include mockery and grubby humour in such tragic play? Which part of the audience would appreciate this the most? exit examples from the quotes supplied. The mockery used by the Fool is to balance out the tragic honesty and brutality with comedy to ease and balance it out so that the play is not all tragedy. The audience that were the closest to the set were given direct jokes from the Fool about the protagonist, this is usually done to the closest to the stage which were usually the abject people since they would not be able to receive any seats higher.