1.In the opening speeches we can see that King Lear is a bit arrogant and egoistic, because he wants to feel good, or build his confidence based on words his daughters can tell him.
2. Goneril's speech to the extent of her love for her father was talking mainly about she loves him no more than life itself, than riches, more than a child ever loved etc. While Regan's speech is basically speaking about she loves him so much, that she has no love for any other thing/person. Leaving no love anything or one else to exist.
3.I think Kent is indeed justified to say King Lear was mad(crazy), because the one that truly loves him the most he is banishing, and he his accepting false words from his other daughters that dont mean anything.And the one that is true and sincere he is throwing out because she cannot heave her heart into her mouth.
4. Shakespeare used rhyming lines in Kent's last speech to show significance in his farewell and to show the regret he is going to experience and why.
5.The King if France's words are calculated to heal Cordelia's wounds King Lear inflicted because he states,"this is most strange, that she whom even but now, was your best object, the agrument of praise, balm of your age, the best, the dearest, should in this trice of time commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle so many folds of favour: sure her offence must be of such unnatural degree, that monsters it: or your fore- vouch'd affection fall into taint, which to believe of her must be a faith that reason without miracle should never plant in me." In that inorder to make her feel better, he is in a way cursing the king because he has done the most stupid ever, and poin out her strengths and her beauty to her and his tragic loss.
6.The morally state of affairs within the play at the close of the last scene is Edmund Gloucester's bastard son plots against his father and brother, so he can inherit his father's wealth and change his image in society.
7.the excuse is so that his father can see for himself what Edgar is up to.
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