Our hero walks on the cliff's edge of sanity and insanity through out his single-minded task of bittersweet revenge, drifting closer to the edge with every turn of the page. ... Dr Samuel Johnson in an article of critical thinking notes, "Ophelia is treated with wanton cruelty"(2). ...

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It is also important to note that Gloucester's eyes are bleeding at this point in the play. ... Gloucester's blindness is continued in 4.6 when Edgar is leading him to a "cliff" to commit suicide. ...

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On the same note, Lear also seems to order his goddess, Nature, as though he is in control. ... Thus, he says to Gloucester, who believes he has fallen from the edge of a cliff: Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours Of men's impossibilities, have preserved thee (p.96). ...

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