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LESSON

Both the Worlds Suffer: Pathetic Fallacy and the Great Chain of Being

Overview

4 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How does Shakespeare use setting and animal imagery to emphasise the significance of the monarch?
Key words
  • Divine Right of Kings
  • Divine order
  • Great Chain of Being
  • Kingship
  • Nature
  • Pathetic Fallacy
  • Symbolism
  • Zoomorphism

Lesson objectives

  1. Analysis of language (symbolism) (AO2)
  2. Kingship in context (AO3)
  3. Understanding of theme (AO1)

In this lesson