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Richard The Iii - Research Paper

Richard The Iii

In the play, , by William Shakespeare, the character Richard (Duke of Gloucester) is a very manipulative and deceiving person. Richard acts like this in order to fulfill his dream to become King. And since he is at the bottom of a long, long list to be King, he has a lot of people to deceive. But when he does manipulate people, such as his brothers, Lady Anne, and Buckingham, he does without mercy and conscience.
Richard’s brothers are one of the first people to be manipulated and he does it by making them think that one is trying to kill the other. From Richard’s opening soliloquy from the beginning of the play he tells us:
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am ...

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it to call King Edward’s widow sister,/ I will perform it to enfranchise you.” (I,I, ) And what Richard is saying if you want I will kill the King for you so that you can get revenge for this terrible act committed against you. And just like that the two brothers already hate each other.
Richard is a very smart and deceptive man. But the real question should be whether he has the intelligence to win the love an affection of a women who has lost her father and husband to the hands of Richard. The funny thing is that Richard does accomplish this feat. Lady Anne, when we meet her in the beginning of Act I, Scene II, has a bitter hatred towards Richard. She even puts several curses on him such as, “If ever he have child, abortive be it,/Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,/Whose ugly and unnatural aspect/May fright the hopeful mother at the view,”(I,II, ). But her attitude soon changes as Richard weaves his web of deceit. Richard ...

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Added: 12/20/2006 09:16:44 PM
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