Richard III - Anne Quotes

Question 1

Curses

Answer 1

• ‘cursed the heart that had the heart to do it / cursed the blood that let this blood from hence’
• ‘if ever he have wife, let her be made / more miserable by the death of him’

Question 2

Power

Answer 2

• ‘avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell’
• ‘vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman’, ‘vouchsafe, diffused infection of man’
• ‘I grant ye. / Dost grant me, hedgehog?’, perspicacity, quick-witted and intelligent

Question 3

Powerless

Answer 3

• ‘[she spits at him]’, visual symbol of vituperous anger, lost battle of wits - only thing she can now do, hysterical
• ‘take up the sword again, or take up me’, ultimatum, reducing choice, audaciously backs her into a corner, exonerates himself, courtly love imagery
• ‘Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?’, contempt and triumphing, delighting in skill
• ‘And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me’
• fooled by ‘honey words’, power in realisation?