The most important details in this text are the style and structure of King Lear's speeches. These speeches convey the king's confused, violent state of mind, anger, a desire for revenge, egotism and, more positively, humility and a recognition of previous mistakes. Lear's opening line, 'Blow, winds... rage! blow!', is like a crack of thunder, suggesting that Shakespeare is using Lear's language to create the effects of the storm for the audience. Lear's second speech, 'I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness', is less explosive, but still full of rage. Lear's paranoid delusion that the storm is in league with his 'pernicious daughters' (line 22) suggests that Lear blames Goneril and Regan for his suffering. The violence of the storm and his daughters' treachery push Lear into considering criminals who remain 'Unwhipped of Justice' (line 53). Lear starts to look through new eyes at the lives of those he was responsible for as ruler, struggling to understand the world