Storm in 'King Lear'

Storm in 'King Lear'

1. Symbolic of unrest in the kingdom

2. Reflecting storm btween Lear and daughters

3. Reflective of Lear's turbulent passions and changing fortune

4. INternal turmoil building between Cornwall and Albany

5. Changes Lear's journey from outward quarrels to self-discovery

   • He recognises his suffering subjects

6. Madness rages inside and outside of him

7. 'with eyeless rage'

   • Lear's rage and lack of sight in dividing the kingdom

8. The storm is Lear's ally; he seeks destruction and the weather is his means to do it

   • 'I shall bring such terrors on you both, I know not what they will be, but they shall be the terrors of the earth'