King Lear Metaphors
Have you ever been compared to anything? Most likely you have. We all have been. The most popular comparison that we all will identify with is to animals. They are most unlike us, but sometimes, the things we do, make us seem like one, though we do not turn into one. That is the most basic description of the word metaphor. Technically Metaphor’ is a figure of speech that draws a subtle comparison between unrelated things tied together by a common characteristic so far. Metaphors are widely used in poetic language and sometimes become a little difficult to understand. Poems and literature convey very complex feelings.
William Shakespeare’s famous King Lear’ is an example of literature where metaphors are widely used.We will take some examples from this famous piece of literature and call it King Lear’s metaphor Analysis’.
1. Act II – Scene IV
That Sir which serves and seeks for gain, and follows but for form, will pack when it begins to rain, and leave thee in the storm.
This is said as a warning to King Lear by Fool, that there are many who serve him for personal gain and will desert him when problems (storm) come.
2. Act II – Scene IV
Nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine
Nature left to itself is a brute, and Regan is trying to tell Lear in her response, that his if he does not keep himself emotionally stable and in control, that brute (nature) in him may just come out.
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