owe me no subscription."(Act III, Sc ii, Ln 16-18)telling them to make the weather harsher since he has not done anything for them and that he didn't de-serve what he has received from his two daughters. The fear is how Lear in a short period of time went from king to just a regular person and from strong and proud to weak and unconfident. This shows that men do not hold their own destiny and that even though things may be great now you can be struck down just as fast as was to Lear.The fall of Lear is not just the suffering of one man but the suffering of everyone close to him. Gloucester loses his status and eyes, Cordelia and Kent are banished, and Albany realizing his wife doesn’t love him. Everything that happened to these characters are affected by Lear in one way or another and that if Lear had not banished Cordelia and Kent then the two sisters would not have been able to plot against their father. Without the plot of the two sisters, Gloucester would not of lost his eyes and his status to Cornwall because he was guilty of treason.There is a chance in the play in which Edgar meets Oswald trying to kill his father because he is a traitor. Oswald is slain asks Edgar, "And give the letters which thou find'st about me to Edmund Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out upon the English party."(Act IV, Sc vi, Ln 252-254)Edgar finds a letter to Edmund from Goneril about the conspiracy to kill Albany. This part in the play affects the outcome of Goneril and Edmund in which will lead to both of their deaths. The pain and suffering endured by Lear eventually tears down his strength and sanity. Lear is not as strong, arrogant, and prideful as he was in the beginning of the play instead he is weak, scared, and a confused old man. At the end of the play Lear has completely lost his sanity with the loss of his daughter Cordelia and this is the thing that breaks Lear and leads to his death. Lear dies with the knowledge that Cordelia is dead an...
