Diction:
"XAs a result of what the passage emphasizes, the reader learns that endurance through strife results in victory.
"XCD 1- "contentious storm": brooding inwardly, infesting; storm on outside and inside; ironic bc content is in contentious; disease, infection, spreading wo knowing
"XCD2 - "invades us to the skin": literally about Kent, Fool, and Edgar; figuratively like 2 sides of Lear. Skin= completely lost control, comes from inside to outside- like volcano
"XLear has a good reason for query, for the king is aware that respite from the storm will allow his ravaging emotions to be more acutely felt. "But where the greater malady is fixed," cries Lear, "[t]he lesser is scarce felt." The notion that a more acute pain, once alleviated, will give way to suffering from lesser pains was a familiar one to Shakespeare and his audiences.
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