What does the storm represent?
- Suffering- Divine justice
- God's punishment
- Lear's temper/inner turmoil - pathetic fallacy - Lear realizes that his daughters have turned against him because they are just after his power.
- Lear's building madness? - Lear argues with the storm. "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!". His efforts to converse with the storm implies that he has begun to loose touch with his sense of reality. Lear's behavior gradually worsens as the storm continues unabated. He gradually goes mad and becomes a "a weak despes'd old man".
- Political disarray
- More treachery ahead?
- Power of nature forces Lear to recognise own morality -
At the same time, the storm embodies the awesome power of nature, which forces the powerless King to recognize his own mortality and human frailty as well as to cultivate a sense of humility for the first time. He realizes that "man's life is as cheap as beasts". The storm shows the power of nature, which is a force that not even a King is safe from. He realizes that he is no different from a commoner and he has the same morality and frailties as every man.
- Reflection of Lear's internal confusion
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