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King Lear by William Shakespeare: Many Examples of Imagery BY theface3352 While writing the book “King Lear” William Shakespeare included many examples of imagery. Ranging from animals to heaven and hell, poison and corruption, disease, tempest, sight and blindness, and many more. The first example of imagery is animals. Nearly every character in the play are represented as animals or have animal qualities. The first quote this essay will examine is “there thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dogs obeyed in office” (Act 4, Scene 6, Page 7).
King Lear makes a metaphor with himself in it here. He compares himself to a dog and is basically saying that when he was in office he was seen as an authority figure who needed to be listened to and respected. As soon as Lear leaves office though he thinks of himself as being on better than a dog and even realizes that even when he was in office he was still a dog, Just a respected one because of his power. The next example of imagery to be found in King Lear is Heaven and Hell. In addition to Heaven and Hell, King Lear also include imagery for poison and orruption.
While writing the book “King Lear” William Shakespeare included many examples of imagery. Ranging from animals to heaven and hell, poison and corruption, disease, tempest, sight and blindness, and many more. seen as an authority fgure who needed to be listened to and respected. As soon as to Heaven and Hell, King Lear also include imagery for poison and corruption. While writing the book “King Lear” William Shakespeare included many examples of imagery. Ranging from animals to heaven and hell, poison and corruption, disease, corruption.