1. Pathethic Fallacy
   1. Quotes
      1. Glouchester
         1. These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us
2. Storm
   1. Makes Lear realize he is insignificant
      1. Storm ignores him
      2. Helps Lear face life and politics
      3. Devine intervention?
   2. echos Lear's
      1. inner turmoil
      2. Madness
   3. Pathetic Fallacy
      1. Grows as Lear gets madder
      2. Lessens as Lear gets saner
   4. Shows even nature/fate is angry at events in the play
   5. kingdom
      1. chaos
3. Fate
   1. Helps the gods decide fate
4. Called on by both sides
   1. Lear mimicing Edmund
      1. Lear: "hear, nature, here dear goddess, here: suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful
      2. Edmund: "Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law my services are bound"
      3. Both are at the mercy of nature
5. Edmund
   1. First soliloquy
      1. Thou, Nature, art my goddess
      2. Nature as a goddess
      3. Disregard others
6. Lear
   1. Come not between the dragon and his wrath
      1. Lear
   2. Cordelia
      1. Nature is ashamed almost to acknowledge hers
   3. Opressed nature sleeps
      1. infancy
      2. sleeps