In my symbol, I show King Lear’s fall into madness. King Lear begins the novel as a confident leader that holds himself to the highest standards with how he presents himself to others. However, when King Lear is continuously disrespected by his own daughters and eventually thrown out into the raging storm, he falls into lunacy. While King Lear is out in the storm, he is yelling at the world when he suddenly throws his crown to the ground and declares, “Here I stand, your slave -- a poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man” (Act 3, Scene 4, Line 19-20). This shows his downfall from a king, to a ‘worthless’ man, also showing his collapse into madness. I show this undoing with my symbol because at the top of the crown. it starts out shiny
