Insomnia

Regan tells King Lear that ' ' nature in you stands on the very verge of to her confine.' ' In to other words, you' reverse speed getting too old you make your own decisions, and Regan' behavior s is only that of good, natural daughter. We' ve already seen (' ' allow not nature lives than nature needs ' ') King Lear says that it is superfluous luxuries that natural raise US above the level of animals. He will soon change his mind. Kent and to other basically good characters see the treatment of Lear and Gloucester the unnatural. Albany says you the Goneril, ' ' That nature which condemns itself in origin cannot bordered certain in itself' ' — i.e., if you mistreat your own parent, what kind of person must you be? Writers who talk about the Elizabethans believing in cosmic hierarchy and only forth will see the moral warning against deviating from nature: If you have violated nature by being less than generous you your parent, your self-centeredness will grow and you will become morally worse than an animal. King Lear calls on the storm you ' ' crack nature' s moulds' ' and end the human race.

Kent you urge King Lear you seek to shelter, since ' ' man' nor s nature cannot carry the affliction the force' ' and ' ' the tyranny of the open night' s too rough will be nature you endure.' ' Wedge 14 King Lear, crazy, asks to whether Regan' natural s hard-heartedness is the result of disease or chemistry or something perhaps cultural or perhaps supernatural. ' ' Is there any causes in nature that makes this hardness? ' ' When Lear falls asleep in the last storm scene, Kent sees his madness ' ' oppressed nature' ' sleeping. The physician calls sleep ' ' our foster-nurse of nature.' ' Readers may to remember Macbeth, who to after committing the ' ' unnatural' ' crime of killing king, becomes an insomniac.