Connection: King Lear to the Erosion of a Mountain

King Lear starts off as a mountain in the beginning of the play and as the play progresses, the mountain slowly begins to erode and become one of the Appalachians, which in my opinion shouldn't be considered mountains. His daughters are the constant force of the elements that batters the cliffs and courses through the cracks in the rocks during Spring. Goneril is the wind howling in her wrath. Regan is the water that passively pushes itself through any obstacle, but sometimes turns to ice and snow and becomes a blizzard. And Cordelia, well, she is the animals that migrate elsewhere when the sides of the mountain become too harsh, but return when the snow melts the grass begins to appear. Seeing the four "major" characters in the way really helps me to characterize and understand who each of them is. Since I find Shakespeare difficult to understand, I find that I make sense of his works best when I can identify what type of person each of the characters is, and that helps me decipher there responses to the different situations and predict with more accuracy what I believe will occur. But, my analogies of the characters will change as situations that I couldn't explain with the existing ones are explained to me.