“o, reason not the need! our basest beggars / are in the poorest things superfluous: / allow not nature more than nature needs. / man’s life is cheap as beast’s”?
explain.

The above dialogue is from King Lear by William Shakespeare. In the specific dialogue, King Lear is raging against his two daughters' attempts to strip him of his knighthood and his servants.

Explanation:

King Lear delivers these lines in Act 2 scene IV of the play where he rages against his own daughters Goneril and Regan. They had turned against him and had attempted to take away his knighthood and all of his servants. So, he is explaining that humans are only different from animals in that they need more than the basic necessities of life. If not, they will be the same as animals. His need to keep both is representative of his identity as the king and as a human being. Their presence will make him appear acceptable to others.

this need to be done in 15 minutes kind of passed the 15 minutes by now sorry dude but i can list some of my thoughts down for you : (