Is Shakespeare's Monologues And Soliloquie In Romeo And Juliet By William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s and Pacino’s texts both depict Richard’s downfall due to his lack of conscience and virtues in his ambitious quest for power to reflect the beliefs of a Providential and secular society respectively. As such, Shakespeare's use of stichomythia and rhetorical question “Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?” accentuates the lack of compassion and morality in Richard’s persuasive abilities to emotionally manipulate Anne to accept him as a suitor in his path to attain greatness. With Richard’s gratification of his achievement, Shakespeare illustrates the tyrant within Richard as his moral conscience diminishes due to over-ambition, hence reflecting the harsh Machiavellian politics in the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare’s underlying message on over-ambition is further exemplified through the dissolution of Richard’s unjust reign and mental stability through the death imagery in “It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What do I fear? Myself?”. Richard’s unstable mind in the ghosts’ precession, encapsulates Shakespeare’s message of the ramifications of sacrilegious acts whilst asserting God’s divine retribution on any form of theomachy ambition. In accordance to Shakespeare’s illustration of the fall of man due to ambition,

Upon Richard's return to England, he learns of the events that had transpired in his absence. At first his own arrogance allows him to believe that since it is his God given right to rule as King, he will be protected. But then just as quickly, Richard's arrogance turns into despair upon the realization that Henry has gained support of the nobles and the people of England. Henry and Richard finally meet at Ramparts Castle leading to the climax of the play. Henry demands retribution for the allocation of his families' possessions and

Richard, the main character of the Shakespeare’s play, Richard III is portrayed as socially destructive and politically over-ambitious. His destructive potential is depicted by the way he relates with the other protagonists in the play and also by what he confesses as his intentions.

Since Richard cannot do anything about his deformity and ugliness he turns his bitterness to ambition and lays the groundwork for his plan to betray King Edward IV. Richard tells the audience, “plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, by drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, to set my brother Clarence and the King in deadly hate against the other; and if King Edward be as true and just as I am subtle, false, and treacherous, this day should Clarence closely be mewed up, about a prophecy, which says that G OF Edward’s heirs the murderer shall be” (1.1.32-40). In these lines, Richard reveals his plan that he will turn Clarence and King Edward against each other so Edward will banish Clarence to the tower because he believes Clarence will be his murderer. Richard will do this through declaring a prophecy that this will be so. Richard explains that this will work because King Edward is as just as Richard is treacherous and Richard will use that against King Edward to cause his and Clarence’s demise. It is not known whether the character Richard would have revealed more about his plan this early in the play because he is interrupted by Clarence. Richard ends the speech with the lines, “dive thoughts down to my soul, here Clarence comes” (1.1.41), which basically means that he better keep

I have been very sad lately because I love Roseline, but she doesn't love me back. "Ay me! sad hours seem long. Was that my father that went hence so fast?" Benvolio saw me today so I told him the news. "Bid a sick man in sadness make his will: Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill! In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman." He took me to the Capulet party. Once, I got there I saw the most beautiful girl named Juliet, but she is a Capulet. "Is she a Capulet? O dear account! my life is my foe's debt."I kissed her and decided to stay after the party with her.

Ambition is an earnest desire for achievement. Both texts are self reflexive and emphasise Richard’s obsessive ambition, desire and longing for the throne. Each Richard strives towards capturing the throne regardless of consequences and bloodshed. Richard is depicted in both texts as an ambitious character who strives to gain power and independence through deception and self confessed villainy. ‘Since I cannot prove a lover. . . I am determined to prove a villain’ This obsession which drives Richard to commit horrific evils to gain and then protect his claim to the throne. His ambition, power and evil blinds him and inevitably is responsible for his downfall in both of the texts. A connection is formed between Looking for Richard and King Richard III in the final scenes Al Pacino’s interpretation and ‘Hollywood’ background influences an ending which can be interpreted as portraying Richmond as a coward. Elizabethan audiences

* Lady Anne scene – Richard turns from the monstrous Machiavellian character we see throughout most of the play, into a romantic wooer. He uses rhetorical language such as pathos to connect with her emotions which assists him in essentially ‘capturing’ Lady Anne. The fact that Richard had just killed her husband King Edward, with her still being with his coffin just makes Richard seem even more powerful as he still manages to pull Lady Anne into marrying him. Although in this scene Lady Anne proves to hold the knowledge of language too as there is constant stichomythia between the two characters through most of the scene but the line which best shows this is when Richard says “Bid me kill myself. I will do it.” And

Throughout the play, it seems as if Richard’s conscience takes a backseat to all of his evil deeds. While reading, one cannot help but muse as to whether King Richard is so purely evil that he has no conscience. This thought may be abated in some forms in act V. In this act, all of the people that King Richard has killed, or ordered to be killed, parade through a dream of his, condemning him with the phrase “despair and die”. Though dreams in Shakespeare have a foreboding quality, this particular dream of Richard’s may serve as his conscience starting to rear its ugly head.

Richard’s aspiration for power caused him to sacrifice his morals and loyalties in order to gain the throne of England. Shakespeare refers to the political instability of England, which is evident through the War of the Roses between the Yorks and Lancastrians fighting for the right to rule. In order to educate and entertain the audience of the instability of politics, Shakespeare poses Richard as a caricature of the Vice who is willing to do anything to get what he wants. As a result, the plans Richard executed were unethical, but done with pride and cunningness. Additionally, his physically crippled figure that was, “so lamely and unfashionable, that dogs bark at me as I halt by them,” reflects the deformity and corruption of his soul. The constant fauna imagery of Richard as the boar reflected his greedy nature and emphasises that he has lost his sense of humanity.

In Richard II, Richard is raised as to be a young, poetic, and immature king. He enjoys the luxuries of being King, but does not connect with his ruling land and its people. Richard is a young king who possesses little to no experience, for he believes that he is God’s representative on Earth and states in Act Three that nothing will be able to take his crown. When threatened by Bolingbroke and his army, Richard assumes that the Lord will protect him throughout his battles and does not do anything in order to defend himself. Richard II bathes himself in the finest things a king can buy, whether that is clothes, food, or the ability to surround himself with people who only tell him what he wants to hear.

/Ravish our daughters?” (Shakespeare Line). Instead of using the religious motivator of the just cause they are fighting for as Richmond had, Richard reminds his men of all they can lose if they do not defeat Richmond’s army. Richard has always been more aggressive in his plans for the throne and his speech to his troops exemplifies this characterization about him. While they both try to get their armies support behind them, Richmond and Richard use two strategies to motivate their troops to fight for

Richard II is an authoritative and greedy king of England, and he is living in a period of transition that medieval knights who are swearing total loyalty to a king has been disappearing and an aristocracy starts to gain a power for their own good. However, Richard II keeps believing the power of kingship, and he also is too confident himself. He overestimates his authority and power; furthermore, he ignores the periodical change. Therefore, he speaks confidently how firm his position as king is to the people in Wales, but his attitude changes when he suffers a defeat by Henry Bolingbroke that he

Oh I am so lucky that I found my Juliet. My friends care about me and but what if I fall down from the tree near balcony Juliet will be alone. My friends are searching for me that I will get caught to Capulets. My Juliet talks to me and she wants me to marry her the next day.

It is in this scene that we witness the weakness of a king but the strength of a man. Richard stops the fight from happening, again with great ceremony. "Withdraw with us; and let the trumpets sound" (I.iii.130).

The main scene demonstrates a keen lord. Any shortcoming is just alluded to, particularly if Mowbray is coming clean when he says: "Ignored my sworn obligation all things considered" (I.i.139). On the off chance that that is reality than Richard is feeling the loss of a chance to have Mowbray for all time hushed, so as not to have an observer to involve himself. In spite of the fact that his choice to wish for no brutality could be praiseworthy.