Richard!

These last two acts (like the rest of the play) had so many characters popping up, I kept getting confused. But in act 4 scene 4 I found the exchange between Queen Elizabeth and Richard very amusing.  Asking the mother how to woe her daughter seems like a gentlemanly thing to do, though I don’t think I would say it was so for Richard. You know, killing off the rest of her family and then asking her mother how to pursue her right after isn’t very classy. I actually thought Elizabeth was winning the argument when she kept cutting off Richard and bringing the subject back to his past actions. But in Richard’s dialogue from line 397~417 I found myself asking, “how does a power hungry, unfeeling person say such heartfelt words?” And could see how Elizabeth could be persuaded.  For a successful happy ending, I half wished that Richard would suffer and have someone deceive him back but at the same time it’s almost as if even if he survived in the end, we wouldn’t be all that disappointed.  All in all, beside being confused from all the different characters, most of all, my attitude toward Richard was just swaying back and forth even until the very end.

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