King Lear Exam Themes with Corresponding Plans and Quotes

Deception/Deceit/Truth 

Good and Evil (are not distinctly different from each other) (contribute equally to events)

Family (is not the only conflict)/Duty/Country

Responsibility for fate/free will

Location/setting

Violence 

Control

Plot (is the decay and fall of the world...and the world is not healed again) / Resolution

Catharsis for 'evil' characters

Catharsis for 'good' characters/tragic heroes

Inability to see/Blindness

Human behavior (natural v unnatural)

Nature

Justice (conclusion leaves audience with an uncomfortable sense of-)