“Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! Spout, rain!” (III.ii.130) proclaims King Lear, as he struggles to survive against the powerful forces of nature while battling in his mind the devious acts committed by his own kin, Goneril and Regan. Throughout Act III of Shakespeare’s King Lear an “extremity of the skies” stirs above the heath Lear and his followers tread. The tempest (no pun intended towards Shakespeare’s The Tempest) holds more symbolic reference than its tumultuous being; it symbolizes the archetypal darkness inhibiting Lear, the naturalistic elements seen throughout the tragic play, and the environment the senile king appears to need in order to move toward his awakening (“The Sight Pattern” – King Lear Notes).
“Nor rain, wind
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