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King:Lear

Examples of "The Breaking of the Heart":

1.) The first signs of a breaking heart occurs in Act IV in the opening lines. Edgar talks about how he is better as a beggar than being his own self. He then states that any change is for the good and that he will accept as freely as it comes ("Welcome, then, thou unsubstantial air that I embrace!")-[6-7]. 

2.) In Act IV, scene iv when Cordelia sends her soldiers out to find Lear she fears for his life and takes the blame for his madness. "O dear father, It is thy business that I go about. Therefore great France My mourning and importuned tears hath pitied. No blown ambition doth our arms incite, But love - dear love!" - [23-29]. 

Examples of Human Decomposition:

1.) Act IV, scene vi, lines 30-43: Gloucester tries to commit suicide. He gives his son, Edgar, the last of his jewels and wishes that this may be the beginning of his prosperity (he thinks Edgar is a beggar). 

2.) Act IV, scene vi, lines 117-114: Lear trembles into the scene right after Gloucester and Edgar talk about Gloucester's "incredible fall." Lear tells Gloucester that he will not let him be sentenced to death for being an adulterer and goes on to say that the world needs more adulterers and lots of sex. Clearly, Lear has lost it and is beginning to go crazy. 

No Recovery From Grief:

1.) Act V, scene iii, lines 9-20: Lear tells Cordelia that together they will go to prison and sing like birds in a cage, discuss the mysteries of the universe and be happy. This is "No recovery from grief" because the King is so defeated that he is unable to recover and go back to living a normal life. Instead, his grief has got the best of him and he thinks that prison will be just fine and that it's not worth fighting any more. 

2.) Act V, scene iii, lines 75-81: Regan surrenders and tells Edmund to take her soldiers, prisoners and her inheritance and to do what he likes with them.