King Lear

Discuss what you think are the major themes/symbols that Shakespeare has constructed his play around and discuss their significance.
Throughout the play "King Lear" Shakespeare writes symbols with themes to help give the audience a fuller understanding of the issues involved and a dramatic unity to the whole. Nature is one of the main themes, Shakespeare frequently presents it in terms of what characters feel is natural or unnatural and the use of symbolism, associated with the natural world helps him to do this as throughout the play we are presented with conflicting views of nature and…