What Is The Mood Of Richard III's Speech

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

Richard speaks about how people see him as a curse to the land and how he is unfit to be there. He does not like that and to prove everybody wrong, he will rise up to be king, no matter what he has to do. He even stated in his opening soliloquy that he will, “set my brother Clarence and the King, / In deadly hate the one against the other.” (I.i. 35-36). He can’t live his whole life being told he is a villian just because of his deformity.

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 Shakespeare's Richard III, Richard’s body has always been at the center of attention. As the main protagonist of the play, Richard is constantly being deplored for his deformed body, which at the end, ultimately serves as a weapon to all instead. Throughout the play, we observe a malformed Richard, ruthlessly slaughtering his own kins, consumed solely by the notion of taking the crown. We often question ourselves as whether Richard’s intent of succeeding the throne was only based upon his own greed and ambition or whether there was another reason for his heinous crimes, possibly the idea of exacting revenge on those who have scorned den upon him. The justification of his crimes are often expressed through his body, enforcing his deformed

Losing the crown and being stripped of all his power is a great blow for Richard, but he continues to believe that God is going to protect him, and also his redemption through self-knowledge and an awakening of his human compassion are significant for his transition from being The King to an average man. It seems that in the end Richard transforms himself into another person, a man who is not the king anymore, and has to continue “searching” who he actually is. At the end of the play, after a reflective soliloquy and a “tender” moment, Richard finally takes bold action against his attackers and dies bravely. This is a slim attempt for making a tragic hero out of him, but it has not prevented Jan Kott's heady claim that "Just before being hurled

Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s most popular history plays. It features elements of comedy, tragedy, history, and betrayal. In act four scene two King Richard says “With mine own tears I wash away my balm, With mine own hands I give away my crown, With mine own tongue deny my sacred state, With mine own breath release all duty's rites”. This particular passage, King Richard is speaking aloud about giving up his crown and throne to Bolingbrook. The symbolic meaning behind certain words within this passage generate this tone of relief, satisfaction, and alleviation.

He emotes a mouthful of insults about the opposing side calling them “vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, scum of Bretons and base lackey peasants” (V,iii,335-336). Remember, Richard is very cunning and is masterful in his selection of words. The fact that he says words against his own men to make them angry and fearful shows that he has lost his edge. He seems to be slipping into despair maybe because he feels the end is near. Richard’s words reveal a promise of violence and implies the negative aspects as a result of not going into battle. “You having lands and blessed with beauteous wives, they would restrain the one, distain the other” (V,iii,340-342). This leaves Richard’s men uneasy and fearful of the battle ahead. On the other hand, Richmond’s speech displays hope and financial gain. His words give his soldiers a sense of pride and the knowledge they are doing what is best for their country and fellow man. Richard’s leadership is a clear example of how others view his character. He’s ungodly, violent, malicious, oppressive, fearful, and angry. Even so, the final lines he speaks to his troops seem to be a bit more uplifting. He finishes by saying, “A thousand hearts are great within my bosom. Advance our standards. Set upon our foes. Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons. Upon them! Victory sits on our helms. (V,iii,367-371).

Hastings is manipulated into believing that Richard will protect him in any situation as he says, “As thou and I, who, as thou know’st, are dear /To princely Richard and to Buckingham.” (66-68) Richard’s concealed operations are proven successful as Hastings is deceived by Catesby’s illusive words. The many occurrences of double entendre through Catesby’s replies add to the irony, but also demonstrate how Richard’s mischievous implications are hidden from Hastings, but not from the audience. Richard’s manipulative expertise can also be shown by, not only his enemies, but also his friends and followers.

Richard is a victim of bullying throughout the play, and this causes him to do harmful things to others. His deformity is something that he is very insecure about, and when characters in the play insult him, it leads to him getting revenge on them. Anne, when Richard is talking to her as a potential love interest, insults him, “Blush, blush, thou lump of deformity” (1.2.58). As Richard is trying to be charming, Anne strikes his insecurity, which upsets him, and causes him to hurt her later. Queen Margaret calls Richard names as well, “Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog” (1.3.228). This is especially hurtful to Richard, because he is trying to be especially desirable to win over her daughter, yet he is still called rude names. Later in the play, Richard implies that he is going to kill Anne, “Come hither; Catesby. Rumor it abroad / That Anne my wife is very grievous sick; / I will take order for keeping close”(4.2.50-52). This is awfully suspicious and implying that he is going to kill her, which is his revenge for her calling him a lump of deformity, as well as allowing him to proceed in his plans to take the throne. He is insecure about the insults, but he still tries his best to be kind to the women in the play.

In the beginning of the play, Richard describes his hatred of the current peacetime present in England. Since peace now exists between the houses of York and Lancaster with Richard’s brother Edward IV on the throne, Richard cannot utilize his battle skills, and grows bored. As a result, his boredom drives him to create chaos, which he mentions when he tells the audience that “since I cannot prove a lover to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determinèd to prove a villain and hate the idle pleasures of these days” (1.1.28-31) . With such a desire for chaos, Richard orchestrates the downfall of

From this passage the audience can tell that Richard has learned the error of his ways. Richard realizes that he has wronged all the people of his

Richard tries to justify his actions by rationalizing that since he was “cheated by fate” and “cannot be loved”, and since he believes that he was not justly rewarded for all he did to put his brother on the throne, he has no choice but to become the villain and take what he feels like he is owed. During Richard’s opening soliloquio, he said that he was “Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,/ Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time/ Into this breathing world, scarce half made up” (Shakespeare. I.I.20-22). In this passage Richard first reveals to the audience that he is deformed, and about how he and everyone else looks at him as half a man, and because of this, Richard has had to distance himself from others emotionally all his life. He goes on to explain that he is so hideous that even “dogs bark at [him] as [he] halt[s] by them” (I.I.24). If even dogs did not want Richard’s company, he believed that no one

Richard is taking on the challenge of becoming king as a game of outsmarting others. He makes sure that he eliminates everyone that stands in his way. Family ties are not a matter that Richard worries about in his pursuit. He has both of his brothers killed in order to become closer to his goal. He does not have a sense of what is morally right or morally wrong.

The argument that upholds Shakespeare is if what he speaks is the truth, and if he creates this image to get the reader more involved in the reading. It could also be to create a better image when the reader finds out the man is a true villain. King Richard III is a monster in the view we are perceived to believe. In this novel the author creates an image in our head that is repugnant of Richard III. In Shakespeare’s Richard III, Richard Says:

King Richard II had a skewed view of his roles. He was unable to successfully balance his role as king with his role of a man. One cannot rule a kingdom properly without knowing both of these roles (Moseley, 2009). He had a public persona that led him to believe, falsely, that he was immortal; privately, he was fallible and immortal. King Richard II did not pay attention to the things happening around him (Attend, 2017). He felt he was only responsible to God. This caused him to feel more resentment towards people such as Bolingbroke because he felt Bolingbroke should not have had a say. Between King Richard’s unpredictable temperament and his complicated psychological state, his confusion about his roles because too much to overcome (Forker,