imagery in Shakespeare's King Lear

William Shakespeare, when writing King Lear, incorporates many effective images into this play. He refers to clothing, animals, wheels, sexual images, and blindness all to make his point. Shakespeare uses blindness in 2 paralleling plotlines, those of Lear and Gloucester. He uses animal imagery throughout the play, to show one character’s feelings for another. And finally, he uses clothing imagery to exemplify the situation of certain characters. The images used by Shakespeare in this play …

…they have not”. (Act IV, scene 7, 85) He is speaking to Cordelia, and wondering why she doesn’t hate him. In Shakespeare’s King Lear, there is a lot of very evident imagery. Some of the subjects include clothing, blindness, and animal images. These are all very effective because they all paint very vivid pictures, and seem to add something to what the characters are saying. Overall, William Shakespeare’s King Lear is an excellent play.