The storm King Lear

The storm King Lear

1. "Crack natures moulds, all germans spill at once/ That make ingrateful man"

   • Lears loss of hope
   • calling upon the storm to unleash its fury on the world
   • Despondency sp great it verge on nihilism, a belief in nothing

2. "A poor, infirm, weak, and depis'd old man"

   • Lear submits to the strength of the storm- he power of God?
   • Does not fight for survival with shelter or fight for his sanity
   • Fallen far from being the strong monarch

3. "How dos't my, art cold" [to the fool]

   • Shows his caring and loving nature thats often disguided
   • adds to his complaxity

4. "more sinned against than sinning"

   • Lear believes himself to have pure intent eluding to his confusion over the daughters hostile attitude which may have stemmed from the constantly being second best to Cordelia

5. "horrible pleasure; here i stand, your slave"

   • oxymoron
   • submission to the storm,metaphor perhaps for submissing to his daughters, or perhaps God?

6. "I will be the pattern of all patience"

   • Lear perhaps recognising how his quick rage and hasty actions seen with his dismisal of Kent and Cordelia may have been his hamartia