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Lady Anne - Character and Motivation Richard III Act 1 scene 2
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Lady Anne - who is she?Daughter of Warwick
A powerful noble who changed sides
during the Wars of the Roses
Widow of the Prince of Wales
Killed in battle by Richard
What is she doing in this scene?
Mourning the death of her father-in-law,
Henry Vl.
She is with the open coffin
Also killedby Richard
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So she doesn’t like Richard? Correct!
How does she show this in the scene? She uses directlanguage, linked
to evil the devil. thou dreadful minister of hell
Foul devil thy hellShe refers to the crimes
Richard has committed
thy heinous deeds
thy butcheriesThy is repeated for emphasis
in the speech“thy” and “ thou”, the 2nd person singular,
used here by Lady Anne to showcontempt for Richard
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Anne is not afraid of Richard
She accuses him of making Henry’s corpse bleed
’tis thy presence that exhales this blood
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She makes quick-wittedresponses to Richard,
involving word-play
Fairer than tongue can name thee
Fouler than heart can think thee
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A=She refuses to give way to him
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She directly accuses Richard of killing her husband and King Henry
Queen Margaret saw Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood –
Didst thou not kill this King?
She is angry when Richard is sarcastic to herDost grant me, hedgehog?
And thou unfit for any place but hell!
So Anne is holding out against Richard
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So how does Richard win her over?1. Introduces sexual element - lie with
2. He says her beauty was to blame
But she is still not won over.
2. Spits at him
Your bed-chamber.
Your beauty that did haunt me in my sleep
1. argues back If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide, These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.
Highly unusual act for anaristocratic lady
She is in astate of grief where she does unthinkable things
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Richard tries different lines of argument with Anne
1. He says he has suffered
She is scornful
2. He brings in the sexual element again
Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,
Teach not thy lip such scorn – for it was made For kissing, lady,
This seems to wearLady Anne down
Perhaps at this pointshe feels attracted towards him, despite herself.
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Richard takes a calculated step
She has the opportunity to stab him
She takes his sword in her hands
I lay it naked to the deadly stroke, And humbly beg the death upon my knee.
But she doesn’t kill himeven though he encourages her She says
Arise, dissembler.
Get up hypocrite-she’s not fooled
A milder insult than the ones she used earlier
It shows he’s winning her over
This is the turning point and later
in the scene she accepts his ring
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Why does Anne allow herself to be persuaded by Richard?
She’s in a state of grief and is not in
control of her emotions
Which do you think are the most important?
Richard's powers of persuasion- he doesn’t give up.
Richard is attractive e.g. to other characters in the play
Hastings, Buckingham, Clarence
Fear : if you’re Richard’s friendyou’re safe!
Anne feels guilty - maybe it was her beautythat made Richard kill her husband
The play takes place in a bloody and violent setting. Brother kills brother. People are executed for minor reasons.
Henry Vl’s corpse starts to bleed.In this setting a woman agreeing to marry her husband’s
killer is yet another shocking event.
Anne is sexually attracted to Richard
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Richard lll SATs 2008
Character in section 2 A4s4 lines 199-342
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Two characters in this section
The audience wants to know who will win
Richard Queen Elizabeth
What does Richard want? What Queen Elizabeth does want?
To marry Queen Elizabeth's daughter
also called-Elizabeth
To stop Richardmarrying her daughter.
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In some ways this is similar to section 1
In section 1 Richard was trying to get
Lady Anne to marry him, after
murdering her husband
In section 2 Richard is asking Queen
Elizabeth if he can marry her daughter,
Elizabeth after he has
murdered her sons
Will he be successful this time?
Why marry Elizabeth? Because Richmond wants to marry her- it will strengthen his claim to the throne
His wife Anne is dead
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Richard tries to take command of the situation
Stay, madam. I must talk a word with you.
But Elizabethknows what he is after
I have no more sons…for thee to slaughter!
praying nuns, not weeping queens –
She says her daughters will be…
She warns Richard to keep away
level not to hit their lives.Don’t aim
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How does Richard try and win her over?
With compliments about her daughter Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.
Elizabeth threatens to say that her daughter is illegitimate
Slander myself as false to Edward’s bed,
Why might this stop Richard wanting to marry her? Her life is safest
only in her birth.
He argues back
Elizabeth points out that birth didn’t save her sons
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Richard protests his innocence
You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.
Elizabeth responds angrily
Cousins, indeed! And by their uncle cozened – Of comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life!
She picks up on cousins cheatedPlays on the word
The alliteration builds up the rhythm
To the powerful conclusionto the line
It shows thatElizabeth willstand up to
RichardShe’s angry at her loss andprotective of her daughter
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Elisabeth accuses Richard: he is responsible for the death of her sons
He may not have held the knife that..
lanced their tender hearts,
But he gave the order
Her grief is so wild that she wishes
my nails were anchored in thine eyes
Elizabeth has been provoked and is now on the attack
I intend more good to you or yours Than ever you or yours by me were harmed!
Richard lies to cover upHe’s just had the princes murdered
What tone of voice would the actors use to say these lines?
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Richard is trying to win Elizabeth over by making promises for her children
dignity and height of fortune, advancement
But Elizabeth rebuffs him
Richard is devious - he hasn’t yet mentioned marriage or her daughter
endow a child of thineHe keepsit vague
he continues to declare his innocence
Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads? She’s sarcastic
Which thou supposest I have done to thee.
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Richard now becomes more direct
from my soul I love thy daughter.Elizabeth plays on words in her reply
That thou dost love my daughter ‘from’ thy soul. So from thy soul’s love didst thou love her brothers,
Elizabethuses ‘from’
in the sense of“far away”
When Richard suggests he will make her
daughter his Queen, Elizabeth is contemptuous
What, thou?
Familiar, dismissive
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Richard suggests Elizabeth can teach him how to woo her daughter
Elizabeth’s response is ironic
Send to her, by the man that slew her brothers, A pair of bleeding hearts. Thereon engrave
‘Edward’ and ‘York’. Then haply will she weep.
Richard
Richard knows he’s being mocked
Say that I did all this for love of her. When he tried this line earlier with
Lady Anne it workedBut not this time
Why hasn’t it worked this time?
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Richard tries to convince Queen Elizabeth that he should marry her daughter
If I did take the kingdom from your sons, To make amends I’ll give it to your daughter.
Almost admits he killed the princes
This is unlikelyto convinceElizabeth
An unsophisticated
argument
Richard sees things in terms of the throne
Richard never refers to her by name
He also saysa grandmother
is similar to a mother
They are as children but one step below, Another
unconvincing argument
All this does is emphasise that Richard has killed her sons
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Up until now Richard has been antagonistic to the Queen’s family
He promises to call the Queen's
son Dorset, “brother”and give him
high promotions and great dignity.
Richard becomes lyrical
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transformed to orient pearl,
He wants Elizabeth to woo her
daughter for him
Acquaint the Princess With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys.
Ironic when we consider what has happened to his wife Anne
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Richard’s speech builds up to a climaxHe boasts that he will
beat the rebel BuckinghamHe sees himself as
the conquering heroBound with triumphant garlands will I come, And lead thy daughter to a conqueror’s bed –Links victory in
battle to victory in love
But the Queen is unconvincedhe that slew her brothers and her uncles?
Richmond marries her at the end of the play.
At the end of this section Richard has
not persuaded the Queen. He does not marry her
daughter Elizabeth.