... sonnet's major metaphor compares love to a priceless lighthouse that can withstand any storm, or like the Northern star guides lost ships. The North Star is used in navigation because of its fixed quality, similarly love is "ever-fixed" it does not bend nor does it alter. A "mark" is a beacon designed ... never shaken". Although we may be able to measure love to some degree it's "worth's unknown", the actual value is neither fully understood or appreciated. In the third quatrain, there is reaffirmation of the perfect nature of love being unshakeable throughout time and remains so "ev"n ...

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... to a chaotic sequence of irreversible events. The characters that purposefully instigate the inevitable downfall of both Lear and Gloucester do so with contempt in their hearts. As a result of their malicious actions, Regan, Goneril and Edmund are rewarded by their respective fathers. After realizing their loyalties ... banished, Lear calls Cornwall and Albany to him, telling them to "With [his] two daughters" dowers digest the third" (Act I, scene I, line 129). Understandably, Goneril and Regan are ecstatic, as they now hold one half of Lear's once mighty kingdom; however, their newly ...

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