The Soliloquies Of Richard In
Richard III
Throughout the notable play of Richard III, soliloquies, speeches which Richard, The treacherous protagonist speaks to himself and to the audience, play very outstanding and significant roles. As through the villain hero's soliloquies, we are presented the material that cannot be realistically delivered in dialogue. They enable our understanding of the unmasked Richard and enable our appreciation of the play, as they reveal Richard's isolation, reveal the information on the plot which are the background and atmosphere of the story, and Richard's treacherous plan, reveal Richard's inner thoughts which appear clear to us the deformities of his mind and also reveal his ...
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of Clarence, coming. He is unable to share his thought with his own family as he is plotting against them. He has no true relationship with anyone because he only knows how to use and abuse or victimize people around him. He uses his superior wit and inferior deformity against others.
His isolation is obviously seen when he dreams as he is completely alone, unloved and loveless. He is too vicious and despiteful to even he himself can love his own self,
"There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?".
His deformity and isolation combining with the boundless ambition and egotism could possibly be the cause of his thirst for the throne that is not belonged to him.
Richard's soliloquies play another role in providing the background and atmosphere of the play. As Richard's first soliloquy introduces us the background of the story and the atmosphere of this scene that now the ...
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His next step is to make Lord Hasting and Lord Buckingham believe that Queen Elizabeth and her allies cause the misfortune of Clarence. This evidence is in I, iii, 224-338.
Then we learn from his soliloquy, III, vi, 106-109, that his next move is to take some secret order to remove any threat from Clarence's heirs by imprisoning his son and arranging poor marriage for his daughter whereby her social position is considerably lowered. Also, he plans to prevent others from contacting the princes who are locked up in the Tower. In the next soliloquies, he reveals his next step that he will marry young Elizabeth, King Edward IV's daughter, in order to secure the safety of his ...
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