The Violent Storm in King Lear
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! / You cataracts
and hurricanoes, spout / Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d
the cocks!” (III.ii.1-3).
Lear’s vision of living in an e.ulgent and harmonious world as the
king of Britain, a man of great power and authority, first shatters when
he images himself betrayed by his most beloved daughter, Cordelia.
However, the delusive world of glory and pride for the old king does
not crumble until he /nds himself deluded by his elder daughters,
Goneril and Regan, and left unsheltered under the raging storm. There
is great signiticance about the ferocious storm and tempest that break
