nature

lear wearing wild flowers in his insanity

sisters being compared to animals ; tigers by albany and serpants by lear (how sharper than a serpant’s tooth it is to have a thankless child’. moving down aristotelean natural hierarchy of living things. ideas of dante’s inferno; tiger, how they are the protectors and perpetrators of evil (hell) and the antithesis of heaven (god given rite). by serpant, it tells us that goneril (who is compared to the serpant) is not the victim of evil (as suggested by the story of adam and eve) but evil herself, explaining her corruptive force on the other woman in the play, regan