King Lear states "The bodys delicate: the tempest in my mind" (3.4.12), this metaphor demonstrates that King Lear in speaking in a state of mind where he in unable to think straight or pay attention to what is important. The audiance starts to feel a sense of truth that is coming from King Lear. "Doth my senses take all feeling else/ Save what beats there" (3.4.13-14) is King Lear expressing that he is severly suffering from emotional pain and heart ache. King Lear is putting forward what can happen to someone when their actions have clearly taken over them, which is seen through King Lear, as he has to live with his consequences. Throughout the play the audiance has experienced how King Lear deals with his issues, and how his insight and wisdom was lost due to his excessive pride. In the storm we see King Lear have his anagorisis as he realises the broken relationship between him and his daughters is more important than anything. The storm symbolises King Lear's problems throughout the entire play, which he can not run away from anymore. This is a dramatic scene that shows King Lear's psychological state of mind and how he is left to face his realities. "That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window's raggeredness" (3.4.29-31). King Lear is thinking through all the issues that would concern a king, although he no longer has custody of the kingdom, and proclaims that the storm has characteristics of a beating. He prays for the homeless and those who are starving, whose troubles he has previously ignored. The reference a house constrasts to what King Lear has, "nothing". Alliteration and sibilance draw attention of the audience and emphasise what is being said by King Lear. This storm is a parallel to Britains fall into political chaos, as King Lear has divided the kingdrom, seperated the bond between his children and a civil war is awaiting.
