Animal imagery

[mountainboo]

I am comparing King Lear, Lear and A Thousand Acres. All three make frequent references to animals / animals suffering and include a great deal of animal imagery. Does anyone know the significance of this? TIA

[NazNomad]

The animal imagery in King Lear is always used in derogatory terms to indicate the unnaturalness of a character‘s behaviour in comparison to how they should behave if they observed the natural social order.

http://www.shakespear...s/learandnature2.html

[mountainboo]

Thanks naz

[jno]

I expect you're aware that one story is based on the other?

http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=2789