In addition to the personal, social, and familiar
orders macrocosm ruined, the natural and divine orders are also destroyed in Act I. The natural order is destroyed in the sense that children typically revere their elderly parents, tend to them, and care for them in a loving manner.
Likewise, elderly parents typically cherish their children in their retirement years as something to be proud of and as individuals they love. However, both of these natural relationships in nature are destroyed in Act I. Lear's rage over Cordelia's unwillingness to pamper him in Scene I causes him to disown his daughter, thereby time out the natural bond between father and child. Goneril and Regan's conspiracy to assign their father's power, authority and dignity also severs the natural order, as instead of offering their father compassion and respect they throw him out of their homes without care for his welfare. The Fool recognizes this when he tells Lear, "The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long / That it had it head bit off by it young," (Shakespeare, I.iv.190-191). In being traitorous to their father, Regan and Goneril have demolished the order of
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