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The Daughter Of Time By Joseph Essay

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Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time is a historical novel that looks at the belief that
Richard III, King of England, murdered his two nephews in order to maintain his power. This novel also supports the belief that the “truth comes out through time.” In the novel the main character, Grant, is concerned with what he believes is a unknown fact of whether or not the long ago King of England was guilty. Throughout his search for the answer Grant discovers many history books which all tend to view Richard in different ways. It is from these different views of the same man, that one can draw the conclusion that bias plays a major role in the validity and credibility of documents and personal accounts. So what is the role and in what ways …show more content…

Personal accounts and documents are often overlooked or considered unbelievable because they cannot be considered valid due to the bias opinions of the writer. As historians many find this discouraging because they have no account of what really happened and only have what can be read from the writings of others. In the media bias plays a role in the validity of certain things. An example, just one out of the many, where bias plays a role in the credibility of certain events is the Pocahontas story. With out going into too much detail it is safe to say that the Disney version was very much altered from the real version. Pocahontas was a nickname for “the naughty one” the girls real name in this legend was Matoaka. [visit http://www.powhatan.org/pocc.html to see what is being referred to]
If bias continues to effect how valid certain past documents are, the documents which help to base our future, than what do we as historians have to go on?
When one takes The Daughter of Time and looks closely another name for daughter one may come up with is truth. The truth is what eventually evolves after time. “The truth comes out through time,” is a statement which this book The Daughter of Time demonstrated very well. It showed how
Grant found evidence to support his belief that Richard the III was in fact innocent. It took many years for someone to realize this but that is the role of time in this case. Grant used information from books, which had been

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