The traditional view of Nature in William Shakespeare’s King Lear is that the celestial forces like the moon, stars, and the sun control everything. This view of nature is held by Gloucester, who is giving his land to only one of his sons, and leaving the other with nothing. “These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.” (I.ii.102-103) Gloucester says that eclipses foreshadow bad things. He goes on to say that nature knows all and when feuds are happening, and people are betraying, those people will be punished.
There is a contrasting view in this play that is shown, and coincidentally enough, Gloucester’s so Edmund, is the chief proponent and holds this contrasting view, the one with nothing and that will be
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