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Weaving in elements from Dante's Divine Comedy, the members of the court begin to move up and down the tower based on the morality of their actions. As the characters betray each other, they move lower and lower to the darker levels of the tower, and as Lear's madness progresses, his kingdom descends into hatred and his authority crumbles. The society he helped create, and the mentalities he helped foster, are dissolving into hatred, conflict and the destruction of the tower itself.