Cymbeline--Act+4

1. What are some of the puns on the word "fit" in Cloten's soliloquy? 2. List the ways Cloten compares himself to Posthumus. 3. What do both Guiderius and Arviragus proclaim about Fidele? Is this their hidden kinship showing through or are they attracted to Fidele's feminine qualities? Explain. 4. Is she, in a way, representative of the Britain they love, whom they were born to husband and protect even though they don't know it yet? Is there a note of incest in all this? Explain. 5. What happens between Cloten and Guiderius? Why does Belarius think killing Cloten indicates some invisible "royal instinct" in the youth? 6. What do you think is on Belarius' mind in lines 250+. Explain. 7. What do you think Lucius the Roman means when he says he learns "manly duties" from the boy, Fidele? How possible? 8. How could Imogen mistake Cloten's body for that of Posthumus? Do all men look alike? Have they not slept together much before Posthumus' exile? 9. What is arranged at the end of scene 2? 10. What's Cymbeline's problem in scene 3? Why does he not punish Pisanio? 11. What does scene 4 settle about Belarius and the boys?