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Write a detailed commentary on the extract taken
from Act 3, Scene 4
When we read ‘King Lear’ for the first time we are presented, on the whole, with a pessimistic view of men and society. In other parts of the play Regan, Gonerill and Edmund define treachery, whereas the character of Kent creates a st ....
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.... soul. His mind is so wracked with the treachery of his two daughters that he actually finds comfort in nature’s cruel elements. This is conveyed when Lear says that the tempest…
“…will not give me leave to ponder
On things would hurt me more.”
No matter how much physical discomfort the storm inflicts, Lear feels that in comparison to his mental torment the storm is of little consequence:
“This tempest in my mind
Doth from my senses take all feeling else
Save what beats there.”
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