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Suffering takes on many appearances, depending on how it is received. In King Lear, suffering was very painful to two people, and the giver wasn't necessarily an enemy, pain can be from the ones you love. A storm isn't something you wouldn't think of when pain co ....

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.... could lead to suicide, and it would have, except Gloucester was blind and couldn't see that there was no cliff to throw himself off of. His enemies didn't want to kill him, but they already did, internally. The internal death is the final stage of mental suffering, but there are many stages before the one must go through to get to that last stage. Many of these stages are shown in King Lear, as he breaks down from a powerful man to a crazy derelict, all because of someone close to him, that he trusted, stabbed him in the back. The family is part of your environment and so is the weather. A storm can be a gusting hurricane or a conflict with yo ....