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« my good intent » (line 2)

« what art thou ? » (line 9)

« no less than I seem » (line 12)

« mine own conception » (line 57)

« who am I, sir ? » (line 77)

« wise men are grown foppish » (line 129)

« thoul’t have me whipped for speaking true » (line 144)

« Transport you from what you rigthly are » (line 180-181)

« This is not Lear » (line 185)

« degenerate bastard » (line 209)

« wrenched my frame of nature » (line 223)

« Hear, Nature, hear, dear goddess » (line 230)

« make this creature fruitful » (line 232)

« Blasts and fogs » (line 254)

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« his knights grow riotous » (changing from its nature, joining the general idea Lear is changing)

« By day and night » (line 4)

« what grows of it no matter » (line 20)

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« twelve or fourteen moonshines » (line 5)

« My mind as generous, and my shape as true » (line 8)

« legitimate » (legitimate nature, lines 16, 18, 19, 21)

« he cannot be such a monster » (line 85)

« these late eclipses in the sun and the moon », « though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects » (lines 92-93)

« we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars » (lines 105-106)

« whose nature is so far from doing harms » (line 152)

« if not by birth, have lands by wit » (not use nature but intelligence to earn lands)

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« darker purpose » (line 31, purpose as the
nature of their intentions)

« where nature doth with merit challenge » (line 47)

« true heart » (as an honest nature, line 65 )

« the vines of France and milk of Burgundy » (line 79, sounds like Nature but is in fact about wealth )

"the sacred radiance of the sun » , « the mysteries of Hecate and the night » (lines 103-104)

« majesty falls to folly » (nature of majesty changes, line 143)

« I’ll tell thou dost evil » (evil Nature, line 159)

« which nor our nature nor our place can bear » (line 165)

« than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed » (line 206)

« must be of such unnatural degree » (line 213)

« hadst not been born » (line 229)

« I know what you are » ( I know your nature, line 263)

« long-engraffed conditions » (line 288)

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Act1, Scene 1 This scene introduces Edmond Gloucester's bastard son. The theme of nature there relates to the natural order of procreation which makes of Edmond an illegitimate son. Edmond is trying to reverse this natural order (a typical struggle of fighting faith /supernatural force in a tragedy) as he calls on nature to stand by his efforts to get hold of his believed true position.

Act 1, Scene 4

The Fool lets appear, that the king reversed the natural order in the first place by retiring at an earlier age which unleashed a calamity. Once Lear decides to abandon Goneril, too, he calls upon nature to make her sterile forever so she might never have children. He is asking nature to defend him with quite a cruel request “Into her womb convey sterility”

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Scene 4 : a malediction of the woman nature

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Scene 4 : a malediction of the woman nature

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"Into her womb convey sterility,
Dry up in her organs of increase,
And from her derogate body never spring
A babe to honour her. " (l.233-236)
Lear curses the Gonerill so she can never produce a natural born heir.

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"That's a shelled peascod" (l.159)
This allusion to an empty peapod is a metaphor to show that Lear posseses nothing and has lost everything he once owned.

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"e'er since thou mad'st thy daughter thy mothers" (l.132-133)
There is an inversion in the natural order and the children find themselves being in control and the elders having no choice but to obey.

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Scene 2 : legitimate / illegitimate : the nature of children

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Scene 2 : legitimate / illegitimate : the nature of children

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"Shall to th'legitimate. I grow, I prosper;

Now gods, stand up for

bastards" (l.21-22)
Edmund talks of the nature of children: either you are a true born or are put to shame for being illegitimate.

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"Legitimate Edmund, I must have your land." (l. 16)
Edmund's true nature: cunning and scheming.

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"The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash" (l. 286-297)

Lear's true nature: he has always been a little mad.

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"I love your Majesty according to my bonds" (l. 87-88)

Cordelia has a natural love towards her father, she loves him as she is his child.

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"Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound" (l. 1-2)Edmund believes that nature rules all and in the survival of

the fittest.

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"We must do something, and i'th'heat" (l.298)

The sisters' true plotting and power-greedy nature.

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"Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom,

No less in space, validity, and pleasure" (l.

75-76)

Lear yet again pays no attention to the inhabitants of his land, only

focusing areas that he deems wealthy

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"With shadowy forest and with champains riched

With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,

We make thee lady." (l.59-60)
Lear describes his land through nature, and does not even mention the people who inhabit it.